C-SPAN ids about congress-legislators HOT 7 CLOSED

I vote yes.

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I'd love these IDs - how automatable is it to keep them up to date? Can it
be entirely scripted, or is there a manual component?

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Gordon P. Hemsley <[email protected]

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I vote yes.

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+1

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I'll see if I can't automate some of it, but the tough part is that there's no apparent way to connect C-SPAN ids/urls to our other data.

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At least it's only since 1979 - I bet name+title normalization could get it
close enough to fill in the historical gaps manually - and then it'd be a
lot easier going forward, cause we could limit the normalization set to
current legislators only.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Derek Willis [email protected]:

I'll see if I can't automate some of it, but the tough part is that
there's no apparent way to connect C-SPAN ids/urls to our other data.

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Yeah, probably so.

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Ok, I've added a utility script for updating the current legislators via the NYT API (not the greatest solution, but it works). I'll see about name-matching for the past lawmakers, some of whom I also have in the API.

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