{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/29","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/29/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/29/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/29/events","html_url":"https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/29","id":110093508,"number":29,"title":"lobbyist data + city council agendas","user":{"login":"mscarey","id":2201564,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2201564?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mscarey","html_url":"https://github.com/mscarey","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mscarey/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mscarey/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mscarey/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mscarey/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mscarey/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mscarey/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mscarey/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mscarey/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mscarey/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-10-06T20:24:31Z","updated_at":"2015-10-06T20:26:24Z","closed_at":null,"body":"**Concise description**: \r\n\r\nA 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 text, hopefully).\r\n\r\n**Link (more details/brain dump/alpha)**\r\n\r\nThis might be a chance to salvage some of the work done on the dormant Council Connect project (e.g. the scraper). Background:\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://github.com/open-austin/council-connect\">Council Connect</a>, a notification service mainly for current (not historical) city council agenda items.\r\n<a href=\"https://gist.github.com/mscarey/25e3bc446792019552ad\">Council Connect's Perl scraper</a>, courtesy @tgregoneil.\r\n\r\nWe could get the lobbyist registration data from data.austintexas.gov and collect city council agenda items from the city website. Then we could search the text of the agenda items for names matching the \"client\" field in the lobbyist dataset.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://data.austintexas.gov/dataset/Lobbyists/bqav-9x6a\">City lobbyist data</a>\r\n\r\n**Who will use/benefit from this project?**\r\n\r\nPeople trying to get up to speed on an ongoing city council issue; anyone who wants an overview of which council issues are the most contentious at a glance.\r\n\r\n**Project Needs (dev/design/resources)**\r\n\r\nScraping (Perl or Python?)\r\nVisualization (D3.js?)\r\n\r\n**Status (in progress, pie-in-the-sky)**\r\n\r\npie-in-the-sky\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/comments/145989848","html_url":"https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/29#issuecomment-145989848","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/29","id":145989848,"user":{"login":"luqmaan","id":1275831,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1275831?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/luqmaan","html_url":"https://github.com/luqmaan","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luqmaan/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luqmaan/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luqmaan/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luqmaan/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luqmaan/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luqmaan/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luqmaan/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luqmaan/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/luqmaan/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-06T20:26:24Z","updated_at":"2015-10-06T20:26:24Z","body":"How do you connect the lobbyist to agenda items? That seems very difficult to do."}}