Matt Carey
Matt Carey
We could take our [dataset of bill background sections](https://data.world/mcarey/texas-bill-analysis/workspace/file?filename=billAnalysis.json) and use a Python natural language processing library like [Gensim](https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/) to detect topic clusters. Then we could test whether bills with...
### What problem are we trying to solve? Informing the Texas electorate about the effect of money on the legislative process. Who has the time to search for hours and...
### What problem are we trying to solve? We could make a guide to the most influential passages in opinions written by the judges on the [lists of potential Supreme...
### What problem are you trying to solve? Open source software maintainers are concerned that their software is being used for inhumane or unsustainable activities. They could use a template...
**Concise description**: A visualization of how many lobbyists various companies hired, when they hired them, and what issues they lobbied the Austin city council about (with links to the relevant...
### What problem are you trying to solve? On May 21, 2018, the [Supreme Court announced](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-285_q8l1.pdf), in a 5-4 party-line vote, that it's valid for employers to require employees to...
Not many people are starting projects through open-austin.org's [project page](https://www.open-austin.org/projects/) or [project process page](https://www.open-austin.org/projects/process). We should think about redesigning the interface for project onboarding, which currently flows from our project...
A function to determine if a factor implies another (transitively) given a list of factors that imply one another or a function for determining which implication relations (represented by production...
It might be better if passages of text used for Predicates were sequences of spaCy tokens rather than regular Python strings. SpaCy's entity extraction feature could be used to find...