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by joshdotsmith 3479 days ago
National Voter File (http://www.nationalvoterfile.org)

We’re building the first open source, publicly available national voter database in the United States to power grassroots campaigns, monitor voter suppression, and make door-to-door advocacy possible for anyone.

Monthly Goals:

- Create loaders for new states

- Enhance reliability of existing loaders

- Create Python geocoder to tag households with lat/long

- Develop queries to explore data quality

- Begin work on flash API

Skills needed: PostgreSQL, GIS, Python, Pentaho Data Integration (we can help you learn)

Slack Signup: http://goo.gl/forms/8SJRDlo7Lx2rUsan1

GitHub: https://github.com/getmovement/national-voter-file

Dimensional Data Model: https://docs.google.com/document/d/169mIkiIdl4OetbGvnbVCzq9S...

Information on state voter files to load: http://voterlist.electproject.org/home

Pentaho Data Integration: http://community.pentaho.com/projects/data-integration/

License: MIT