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About Influence Explorer

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Publication: 2013-07-30

Source: http://influenceexplorer.com/about/

Influence Explorer provides an overview of campaign finance, lobbying, earmark, contractor misconduct and federal spending data. To search the underlying records or download the data in bulk, visit the Data section of Influence Explorer. To see when each data source was last updated, see the data changelog.

For more information on how we use this data, see our campaign finance, lobbying, lobbyist bundling, earmarks, federal spending and EPA ECHO methodology pages.

Submitter:

Name:Owen Ambur

Email:Owen.Ambur@verizon.net

Organization:

Name:Influence Explorer

Acronym:IE

Description:
Influence Explorer is a project of Sunlight Labs, the technology arm of the Sunlight Foundation.

Stakeholder(s):

  • Sunlight Labs

  • Sunlight Foundation

  • Center for Responsive Politics: Our data is provided by the Center for Responsive Politics, the National Institute for Money in State Politics, Taxpayers for Common Sense, the Project On Government Oversight, the EPA and USASpending.gov.

  • National Institute for Money in State Politics

  • Taxpayers for Common Sense

  • Project On Government Oversight

  • EPA

  • USASpending.gov

  • Software Developers: DEVELOPERS -- Influence Explorer is built entirely on the public Influence Explorer API. For more information see the API docs or the Python docs. http://data.influenceexplorer.com/api/ | https://python-transparencydata.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Content
Visions
Missions
Values
1: Campaign Finance
2: Lobbying
3: Lobbyist Bundling
4: Earmarks
5: Federal Spending
6: Environmental Enforcement