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Looking at what "historic data"
- what "historic" means (usually: terms before the current one... but possible even countries that are no longer extant)
- examples of oldest terms in our data set so f…
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I'm thinking there should be a way to link to specific politicians. We could show a little clickable anchor icon when hovering over a person card, though it looks like the anchors themselves are hex …
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![screen shot 2015-09-01 at 15 56 22](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/464193/9607614/11d9cd52-50c2-11e5-9e0e-fd4266aa9555.png)
Refs: https://github.com/everypolitician/gender-balance/issue…
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For simplicity when developing a scraper, it would be good to have a Strategy that uses open-uri-cached (with an option for where that cache lives) in the simple default manner (i.e. fetches from remo…
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From the House of Representatives, 44th Parliament data
![screen shot 2015-09-11 at 14 28 52](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/27760/9815984/004b9c5a-5892-11e5-91e9-052840adb9f5.png)
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Users should be able to grant others access to their instance using OAuth2. This would make it easier for applications built on top of a popit database to get access to things which would normally req…
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Now we've got a UI we need to be able to push updates into EveryPolitician.
So we need to create a server component that handles authenticating and authorizing the user. When a user edits some inform…
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I was recently told that someone else has already scraped comprehensive Ukraine parliamentary data: https://github.com/OPORA/publicwhip/issues/88 It appears to include historical people data so it's p…
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# Problem
Often in scrapers you need to pull information out of the querystring, which requires the following boilerplate code:
```ruby
def query
@query ||= URI.decode_www_form(URI.parse(url…
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When reconciling, show all distinct `name_*` fields, so we can compare variations, etc.