http://boingboing.net/2013/02/26/parltrack-needs-money-to-keep.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 10:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2013/02/26/parltrack-needs-money-to-keep.html#comment-1666858 parltrack Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=215521#comment-1666858 Correct. The code is a bit of an ode to the FSM in some places and would need a lot of love and refactoring. But that is mostly due to the whole thing trying to be very tolerant towards data fed into it, lot's of edge cases and other exceptions are handled. If you want to develop something quickly the daily dumped db is an easy entry point. Correct. The code is a bit of an ode to the FSM in some places and would need a lot of love and refactoring. But that is mostly due to the whole thing trying to be very tolerant towards data fed into it, lot’s of edge cases and other exceptions are handled. If you want to develop something quickly the daily dumped db is an easy entry point.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/26/parltrack-needs-money-to-keep.html#comment-1666849 parltrack Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=215521#comment-1666849 hey, I'm the author. Besides Parltrack being a scraper it is also curated, aggregated and presented in a way most useful for active citizens. The liberated data is not so much numerical as more procedural, deadlines for tabling amendments, and the amendments themselves are prominent examples of parltrack liberated data. hey, I’m the author. Besides Parltrack being a scraper it is also curated, aggregated and presented in a way most useful for active citizens. The liberated data is not so much numerical as more procedural, deadlines for tabling amendments, and the amendments themselves are prominent examples of parltrack liberated data.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/26/parltrack-needs-money-to-keep.html#comment-1666497 noah Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=215521#comment-1666497 I think this is a scraper of some sort; it pulls numbers ("data") out of the various formatted documents. I think this is a scraper of some sort; it pulls numbers (“data”) out of the various formatted documents.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/26/parltrack-needs-money-to-keep.html#comment-1666097 luxliquidus Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=215521#comment-1666097 Read it more carefully... "hard to process data" to "reusable open data".  Not all open data is easy to process or easily reusable. Read it more carefully… “hard to process data” to “reusable open data”.  Not all open data is easy to process or easily reusable.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/26/parltrack-needs-money-to-keep.html#comment-1666085 nosehat Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=215521#comment-1666085 <a href="https://github.com/pudo/parltrack" rel="nofollow">This</a> would appear to be the github for the code, if you would rather contribute that way. This would appear to be the github for the code, if you would rather contribute that way.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/26/parltrack-needs-money-to-keep.html#comment-1666072 Vinnie Tesla Wed, 27 Feb 2013 02:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=215521#comment-1666072 If HTML isn't an open format, what on earth is?? If HTML isn’t an open format, what on earth is??

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