Building Open-Source Tools for Congressional Data

Online and In-Person!

Lars Erik Schönander is a technologist and software engineer at Lincoln Network, a nonprofit helping bridge the gap between Silicon Valley and DC. Lars works across the Research and Studio teams on both policy and technical projects. Previously, Lars interned for Lincoln Park Strategies where he did data analytics and software development. He holds a BA from The George Washington University in International Affairs and Economics and currently lives in Washington, D.C. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Palladium, City Journal, The National Interest, and elsewhere. His research has been featured on The Ingraham Angle.

The subject of the talk is building open-source tooling based on Congressional data. Congress publishes quite a bit of interesting data. It is a different question of being able to use that data to build tooling for end-users and the general public. Lars will discuss building on top of open source congressional data, with two specific cases, working with hearing data and working with the House Rules Package data.