-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 0
New issue
Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.
By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.
Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account
Cross Municipality API #3
Comments
cc @JacksonMaxfield for more thoughts |
I have a user story: "I want to see how many municipalities discussed 'housing and homelessness' in the last month and which municipalities brought legislation regarding 'housing and homelessness' -- further, what was the general sentiment during discussion of the topic?" This is an interesting one because I think there are Python API design things we can do to make this easily possible and there is a larger project here about making a website for such queries. This is where plotting and visualization would come in handy. A website to interactively answer these questions and not just a Python API for people like me. Big note: this idea requires multiple municipalities before work even begins imo. This is a really big project but something that we should definitely head towards imo. |
Ooh, I love the idea of having a website/webpage (maybe |
@nniiicc added some comments to a new issue (#19) that I am transferring here:
From a while back, this was somewhat waiting on CouncilDataProject/cdp-backend#106 which was just resolved and released in Although, we are stilling waiting on multiple municipalities to be deployed / Seattle redeployed. I can get started on On to the other asks from Nic. A GUI that allows a user to assemble and download a dataset. I think this was the idea because On a different note, there is enough of a problem now that I think I should have a package called That should be easy for me to do (and it's simple enough that we may use it as a model for CouncilDataProject/cdp-backend#167. Last comment, I think I should add a database table to CDP instances firestore that store metadata about the instance. I.e. backend version... Will look into it. But it would be useful to have for both maintaining the instance and for mass querying. I.e. when constructing a dataset, if a feature was only introduced in v3.2 of CDP, then ignore all instances that aren't on v3.2 |
Idea / Feature
Create an API that enables queries across multiple CDP municipalities.
Use Case / User Story
As a researcher, I want to be able to easily gather data from across different CDP municipalities so that I can ask/answer questions about local politics across different regions.
Todo: Insert more user stories
Other Notes
I've only given a user story that frames this API as helpful to researchers, but an API like this could have incredibly wide applications.
I could envision a really cool section of our public website where we conduct some basic data analysis and present that data in an interesting / visually compelling way.
I also suspect there could be a multitude of new product features that would stem from this one API.
We could also even go the route of hosting this data as an open-source API that could be used by anyone for cool projects.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: