{"id":7381,"date":"2021-07-29T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=7381"},"modified":"2021-07-25T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T23:59:28","slug":"plumb-the-depths-of-the-mass-campaign-finance-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/29\/plumb-the-depths-of-the-mass-campaign-finance-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Plumb the depths of the Mass. campaign finance database!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Got stats chops? Machine learning just your thing? Just curious who finances the 60% of incumbents who have no competitor in the general election?&nbsp;Then we need you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/wiki\/July_17th,_2021_Democracy\/Tech_Meeting\">At our last Democracy meeting<\/a>, Nick started&nbsp;downloading copies of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocpf.us\/\">Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF)<\/a>&nbsp;database and possibly the <a href=\"https:\/\/electionstats.state.ma.us\/\">Mass. Elections database<\/a> to correlate and identify anything interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to help him find needles in the OCPF haystack, email him at\u00a0Nick Roy &lt;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:me@nickroy.org\" target=\"_blank\">me@nickroy.org<\/a>>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PS: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf8FCH5mrhe9jvokp8Ov56wnCuTiff5G3XqzCywMa2GQvlDdQ\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">If you want to testify at Friday&#8217;s Facial Recognition Committee hearing, you have until 5pm today to sign up at the commission&#8217;s site!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/event\/info?reset=1&amp;id=62\">signup to coordinate our testimony, testimony by Pirates and to get a reminder about the hearing<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before and during the hearing, we will discuss the bills at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/discuss.masspirates.org\/riot\/#\/room\/#masspirates-discussion:matrix.org\">https:\/\/discuss.masspirates.org\/riot\/#\/room\/#masspirates-discussion:matrix.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got stats chops? Machine learning just your thing? Just curious who finances the 60% of incumbents who have no competitor in the general&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,43,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-help-needed","category-slider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/massvoterregform.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1V3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7396,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381\/revisions\/7396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}