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I'm up for helping. It'd be easier for me to focus on this over the weekend, and am happy to coordinate then.
I'm up for helping too. Can probably also enlist the help of some folks in our data department.
We're expecting to get XML from the House on new members soonish, so that'll speed things along....
If someone is looking to help, taking on the Senate updates would be a good place to start. It'll have to be done semi-manually. Making a spreadsheet with columns state
, name of winner
, bioguide ID (if winner is a current or past member)
would be a good first step.
For what it's worth, while there's 6 or 7 new senators, most already have bioguide IDs. Their phone numbers will be the number of the member they replace.
For mailing, their rooms will change, but just sending to the member nAme at the Capitol is sufficient.
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Something like this to start?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_724nZosZopv4KSNtW-b2ZT7H26G4A5_QoproZPOOUw/edit?usp=sharing
There's now data from the House on the members-elect:
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/unofficial-115-member-elect-data.xml
So now we need some enterprising help getting this and @mrumsky's spreadsheet pulled into the YAML.
I drafted a PR for doing the Senate (link above). Would appreciate if someone volunteered to do the House.
New member data is in. Many thanks to @joelcollinsdc for taking point on the House data.
There are other things on the list that still need help, for anyone watching. (See the start of the issue.)
I can jump on some of these - what's the best list to be working off?
At the top of this thread, I guess.
Leadership roles and photos stand out as the major items. I'm wrapping up address/phone data now.
Senate data should be up today, BTW.
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At the top of this thread, I guess.
Leadership roles and photos stand out as the major items. I'm wrapping up address/phone data now.
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Yep. Most of it.
If there's stuff missing, LMK and I can try to encourage.
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Yep. Most of it.
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Documentation says that influence_ids.py
populates legislators' FEC and OpenSecrets IDs from the Influence Explorer API, but that source is out of commission now, no? Anyone have plans to update or replace influence_ids.py
soon? Would it be duplicating efforts if we added the missing FEC and OpenSecrets IDs by hand?
I think we can delete influence_ids.py now, and yes it would be totally fine to add those by hand. (I've always added those two field by hand anyway.)
We're on it.
On the remaining checkboxes (social media, leadership dates, and photos) -
@konklone i'll look at leadership roles
Ok thanks everyone. We knocked off everything but photos and since photos has its own repo, I think we can close this.
And for the record, https://github.com/unitedstates/images/pull/132 is now merged.
Ok. So. We just had an election:
That means there were 3 (special) + 435 (representative) + 6 (delegate) + 34 (senator) = lots of elections. Last election's winning strategy was starting with a Google Docs spreadsheet that listed every election (as rows) and had a place for key data to be filled in in columns. @dwillis provided the initial spreadsheet last time. @danielschuman says the House will provide some info in the next few weeks.
Cribbing from #223, which was our 114th Congress issue, we have to make updates for:
id
s added).leadership_roles
for Members who are no longer serving.house_contacts.py
andsenate_contacts.py
scripts) and committee membership.