James Turk

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James Turk is the founder and lead of Open States, a project which scrapes and standardizes legislative information from all 50 states. He was previously the Director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation.

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Open states: Transparency for state governments using open data

Why keep Open States going?

After the closure of Sunlight Labs, the Open States project is heading in a new direction.

Open States project achieves grand milestone

Three years ago at PyCon 2009, we had the first PyCon Open Government Hackathon. Our big project was Open States (then the 50 State Project). The goal was to begin scraping…