unitedstates / inspectors-general

Collecting reports from Inspectors General across the US federal government.
https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/11/07/opengov-voices-opening-up-government-reports-through-teamwork-and-open-data/
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Add FEC #101

Closed spulec closed 10 years ago

spulec commented 10 years ago

This actually didn't end up being as bad as I thought it would be.

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konklone commented 10 years ago

I'm pleasantly surprised at how small this scraper is, for the entropy of the FEC.

It looks like the titles have some cruft on the end:

  "title": "Controls of Procurement for Vendor Training Services\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -"

This would have been a good thing to think of before this, but how about adding an estimated_date field as True, for reports where the report's date is estimated somewhat arbitrarily like this? That way, clients who cared could treat estimate dates as less precise on display, even if they needed a reliable date field to sort on.

spulec commented 10 years ago

PDB removed, estimated_date added, titles cleaned.

konklone commented 10 years ago

Great, that does it! Thanks, @spulec.

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