Faculty
Business
Supervisor Name
Dr. Christian Dippel
Keywords
python, data, back-end, automation, selenium
Description
There is lots of public information about U.S. politicians and the money that flows through Washington. The number of people who utilize these databases is far less than the number of people Webscraping is a simple but effective way for humans to gather information from open-source database websites. Automating the process makes it able to be updated in real time.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Dr. Christian Dippel and the USRI Program for their support.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Document Type
Poster
Querying the world's biggest open-source library to quantify U.S. politics
There is lots of public information about U.S. politicians and the money that flows through Washington. The number of people who utilize these databases is far less than the number of people Webscraping is a simple but effective way for humans to gather information from open-source database websites. Automating the process makes it able to be updated in real time.