Project campaign finance Python Introducing Bedfellows

• By Nikolas Iubel
• Nikolas Iubel, Derek Willis
• The New York Times

The financial relationship between PAC contributors and recipients can be difficult to divine from the information reported to the FEC. Bedfellows is a new Python library based on a model developed at The Upshot for understanding those relationships via several different measures.

Project campaign finance collaboration How to Build an App for 14 Member Newsrooms

• By Denise Malan
• Kaeti Hinck, Denise Malan, Ryan Nagle, Adam Schweigert
• INN

What INN’s newsroom technology team learned about inter-organizational collaboration while building Power Players, and what they’ll do differently next time.

Project campaign finance Python Django machine learning Chase Davis on fec-standardizer

• By Chase Davis, Erin Kissane
• Chase Davis

Chase Davis breaks down his fec-standardizer project and explains where it’s going next.

Project campaign finance data analysis APIs Free the Files API + Q&A with Al Shaw

• By Erin Kissane, Al Shaw
• Scott Klein, Jeremy B. Merrill, Al Shaw, Amanda Zamora
• ProPublica

ProPublica’s interactive data-analysis project gets an API, and Al Shaw answers our development questions about the making of Free the Files.