rshorey

So you want to report using voterfiles

History

In 2002, the Help America Vote Act required (among other things) that states must maintain a "computerized statewide voter registration list". These lists (henceforth "voterfiles") contain information about every registered voter and their voting history.

But what about the secret ballot?

When people who have not worked with voterfile data before hear about voterfiles, their first response is almost always "But in my 8th grade civics class, I learned that a critical component of American democracy is the secret ballot! How can states have a list of how you vote?" Voterfiles do NOT include information about how an individual voted. They report whether an individual voted in a specific election.

What information do voterfiles contain?

The exact format and contents of a publicly available voterfile differ from state to state. At a minimum, a file will contain:

dwillis

italicized sessions are ones that I'm presenting or involved with

Thursday March 10

• 2:15 pm. Election: Making the most out of campaign finance and election * APIs
• 3:30 pm. What's the story with algorithms?
• 4:45 pm. Advanced data cleaning with Python: Machine learning techniques

Friday March 11

joepie91

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

• A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
• A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
• There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

yurivictor

var cheerio = require('cheerio');
var request = require('request');
var fs = require('fs');

var s,
Scrape = {
  settings: {
    // Object, the json to be output
    json: {},
    // String, the url to scrape

chrismdp

# You don't need Fog in Ruby or some other library to upload to S3 -- shell works perfectly fine
# This is how I upload my new Sol Trader builds (http://soltrader.net)
# Based on a modified script from here: http://tmont.com/blargh/2014/1/uploading-to-s3-in-bash

S3KEY="my aws key"
S3SECRET="my aws secret" # pass these in

function putS3
{
  path=$1

TylerFisher

The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2014 NPR

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

thomaswilburn

var sheetID = "xxx-id-goes-here-xxx";

var rowConfig = "timestamp name location favorite note lifespan season contact lat lng zone approve feature".split(" ");

/***
Requests may come in with the following parameters:

name
favorite - player name (number?)
note

salcode

# -----------------------------------------------------------------
# .gitignore for WordPress
# Bare Minimum Git
# http://ironco.de/bare-minimum-git/
# ver 20150227
#
# This file is tailored for a WordPress project 
# using the default directory structure
#
# This file specifies intentionally untracked files to ignore

jlukic

Nutrients and Supplements

Dosage Plans

Dosages listed for 150lb

Suggested Supplements

• Creatine - 5g ~ 150g/month $3.95/month
• Caffeine - 200-750mg ~ 1-3 cups/day ~ 6000-22500mg/month Gum $35/500mg/day Pill $6.65/600mg/day Coffee $180/ 3cup/day/ $180/month
• Bacopa Monnieri - 300mg ~ 9000mg/month $11.45/month

tbranyen

/* Ember App Attach Plugin v0.1.0
 * Copyright 2013, Tim Branyen (@tbranyen)
 * ember-loader.js may be freely distributed under the MIT license.
 */
define(function(require, exports) {
  exports.version = "0.1.0";

  exports.load = function(name, req, load, config) {
    var App = require("app");