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:eyes: keep tabs on Chicago city council
Would be pretty amazing to build portable prediction model as a django plugin for bill passage that leveraged the OCD data standard. The model would be trained per city, but...
Indicators that a piece of legislation in interesting - Featured in Legislative Reference Bureau report - Has a middling chance of passing - Unusual pattern of sponsorship - Flagged by...
From: http://chicagolrb.org/reports A report includes; - Part 1: Municipal Code Amendments - Prime sponsor - Ordinance name - Title - Abstract of the bill - Wards affected - Committee Referred...
Some bills have multiple versions, when they are amended or subsituted. i.e. https://chicago.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2321155&GUID=C96B2888-05BC-423D-9C94-4CE6A89199DA We only show the most recent version. We should let people see earlier versions too. Relates to...
In my estimation, it's pretty hard for an inexperienced and isolated individual to have much effect on matters of important policy before the council. An entry point to power can...
Most Aldermen have twitter accounts. Let's collect them and add to OCD.
The pdf for this bill http://chicouncilmatic.datamade.us/legislation/o-2015-8818/ has been deleted. https://chicago.legistar.com/Confirmation.aspx?M1=Gone Let's deal with the "Gone" response in our pdfviewer
http://chicouncilmatic.datamade.us/search/?q=o%27hare I think we'll need to adjust how SOLR deals with punctuation.