pac-hunter
policyengine-us
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MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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pac-hunter
- pac-hunter: A US election finance utility to search donations from specific PACs to candidates of interest, using OpenFEC
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RAYPAC donations to 2020 election deniers and the open source project they inspired me to create
When researching donation history for RAYPAC, I discovered that the FEC maintains a pretty awesome API into nearly all aspects of federal election finance called OpenFEC. This gave me the idea to write a small utility wrapping this API to allow a user to quickly pull historical data of direct donations from a specific PAC to any number of candidates someone might be interested in. For my use case of election deniers, I used data maintained by [](fivethirtyeight.com) to search RAYPAC FEC reciepts with my tool and ![visualized the results](https://github.com/jlwhelan28/pac-hunter/blob/main/heatmap_example.png) in just a few lines of code.
policyengine-us
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Show HN: Calculator for US Individual Income tax, from 1970-present
Thanks for the suggestion, I added a link to our documentation (https://openfisca.us) to the readme.
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)
Location: Boston, MA Remote: Yes (preferred)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, SQL, Git, Gurobi, familiar with GluonTS (mxnet) for ts forecasting
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-rodelo-aaaa18159/
Email: [email protected]
Background primarily in economics, with 3 years of general programming experience. Significant work experience in finance/policy, decided in the past year to go towards data and software.
Recently left a role where I was responsible, solely, for designing and implementing a production scheduler for an industrial client in Gurobi. Also designed the backend of a demand forecasting platform, using Amazon's GluonTS, from scratch.
Currently working on https://github.com/PolicyEngine/openfisca-us in my free time, helping to research and design a comprehensive tax and benefit simulation for policymakers that doubles as an eligibility calculator.
What are some alternatives?
openstates-scrapers - source for Open States scrapers
ScottishTaxBenefitModel.jl - A tax-benefit model for Scotland