Visualizing

Government Data

Flows

Data Flows

“Soup to Nuts”

- American English idiom conveying the meaning of “from beginning to end”- Derived from the description of a full course dinner, in which courses progress from soup to a dessert of nuts

Data Flows

“Deepbills” Project

CatoXML

http://www.cato.org/resources/data

@Deepbills

Data Flows

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House and Senate Membership

Bioguide

House.gov Clerk.house.gov

Senate.gov

History.house.gov

And more!

Data Flows

House and Senate Membership

clerk.house.gov

Senate.gov

Congressional Record

Data Flows

Meetings of House, Senate, Committees

docs.house.gov

Senate.gov

Data Flows

Meeting Records

Congress.gov(Congressional Record)

Houselive.gov

Data Flows

Committee Reports

PDF HTML

Data Flows

Bills and Amendments

FDSys THOMAS Statutes at Large

LOC American Memory Century of Lawmaking

Data Flows

Votes

clerk.house.gov

senate.gov

Data Flows

Motions

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Inter- and Intra-Branch Communications

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Agencies

Federal Register API

Data Flows

Bureaus

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Programs

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance CSV files

Data Flows

Projects

Data Flows

Budget Documents

Data Flows

Budget Authorities

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Warrants, Apportionments, and Allocations

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Obligations

USASpending.gov

Data Flows

Parties

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Outlays

Data Flows

- House and Senate Membership

- Committees and Subcommittees

- Meetings of House, Senate, and Committees

- Meeting Records- Committee Reports- Budget Documents- Bills- Amendments- Motions- Decisions and Votes- Communications (Inter-and

Intra-Branch

- Agencies- Bureaus- Programs- Projects- Budget Documents- Budget Authorities- Warrants, Allocations, and

Apportionments- Obligations- Parties- Outlays

Data Flows

“Deepbills” Project

CatoXML

http://www.cato.org/resources/data

@Deepbills