https://github.com/dhess/lobbyists

Parsers and utilities for the Senate LD-1/LD-2 database.
https://github.com/dhess/lobbyists

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Parsers and utilities for the Senate LD-1/LD-2 database.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dhess/lobbyists
• Owner: dhess
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2008-08-16T10:10:39.000Z (about 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-01-29T01:02:24.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-30T00:20:53.673Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 245 KB
• Stars: 16
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • License: COPYING

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SUMMARY

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This package provides a reference parser and database importer for the

United States Senate LD-1/LD-2 lobbying disclosure database. The

Senate provides the database as a series of XML documents,

downloadable here:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/database_download.htm

The SQL database schema used by the importer is a direct translation

of the XML schema used in the Senate documents. This isn't a

particularly useful format for analyzing lobbying data, but it is

useful for analyzing the lobbying records themselves, which often

contain errors or anomalies. In any case, it shouldn't be too

difficult to adapt the importing code in this package to a more useful

schema.

A document describing how to interpret the LD-1/LD-2 database used to

be maintained at http://watchdog.jottit.com/lobbying_database.

Unfortunately, that domain is no longer functioning. A cache of that

document as of July 2, 2015 can be found here:

http://archive.is/Alo68

REQUIREMENTS

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This package requires Python 2.5.1 or later.

SCRIPTS

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The lobbyists-load script loads one or more XML documents into a

database.

The lobbyists-benchmark script loads one XML document into a database,

and reports the amount of time required to a) parse the document and

b) import the parsed records into the database. It's mainly

interesting for developers working on the lobbyists package itself.