Sunlight Labs & MongoDB @ MongoDC

MongoDB @ Sunlight

Luigi Montanezluigi@sunlightfoundation.com

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Open Source + Open Data =

Open Government

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High Quality Raw Data

✴ First: Raw data in JSON, XML, or CSV✴ Second: RESTful APIs in JSON or XML✴ Third: Nothing else...

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MongoDB enablesopen data

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JSON has won(among developers)

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Opening Up Data

✴ Storing data from disparate sources✴ Data dumps✴ Web scraping✴ Text/PDF parsing

✴ Serving RESTful JSON APIs

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Three Projects

✴ National Data Catalog✴ Real-Time Congress API✴ Open State Project

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Three Projects

✴ National Data Catalog✴ Real-Time Congress API✴ Open State Project

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App designdrives

schema design

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{ "title": "Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Hour"}

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{ "title": "Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Hour", "description": "Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past hour", "homepage": "http://data.gov/raw/32", "official_docs": "http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/", "organization": "Department of the Interior", "original_catalog": "data.gov",}

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{ "title": "Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Hour", "description": "Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past hour", "homepage": "http://data.gov/raw/32", "official_docs": "http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/", "organization_id": "4cbcc0ff2c34576ba4000001", "catalog_id": "4cbcc0ab2d34d76b97020433",}

{ "title": "Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Hour", "description": "Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past hour", "homepage": "http://data.gov/raw/32", "official_docs": "http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/", "organization": { "name": "Department of the Interior", "id": "4cbcc0ff2c34576ba4000001", "slug": "us-dept-of-interior" }, "original_catalog": { "name": "data.gov", "id": "4cbcc0ab2d34d76b97020433", "slug": "datagov" }}

{ "title": "Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Hour", "description": "Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past hour", "homepage": "http://data.gov/raw/32", "official_docs": "http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/", "organization": { "name": "Department of the Interior", "id": "4cbcc0ff2c34576ba4000001", "slug": "us-dept-of-interior" }, "original_catalog": { "name": "data.gov", "id": "4cbcc0ab2d34d76b97020433", "slug": "datagov" }, "downloads": [ { "type": "csv", "url": "http://data.gov/download/32/csv" } ], "ratings" : { "average_rating": 3.5, "rating_count": 23 }, "comments": []}

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User-centric data?✴ Source document: contains collection of

user data✴ User document: contains collection of

source data✴ UserSource document✴ Rating, Favorite, Note docs

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Freedom of choice

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Three Projects

✴ National Data Catalog✴ Real-Time Congress API✴ Open State Project

Real-Time Congress API(Drumbone)

Credit: vgm8383 on Flickr

Android App: “Congress”

Politiwidgets

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Requirements✴ Aggregate lots of data

Biographical, Bills, Votes, Earmarks, Video Clips, Floor Updates, Legislative Documents, Committee Schedules, Contributions, Interest Group Ratings

✴ Lightweight responses

{legislator: { in_office: true, title: "Rep", nickname: "", district: "9", bioguide_id: "L000551", govtrack_id: "400237", phone: "202-225-2661", website: "http://lee.house.gov/index.html", twitter_id: "", last_name: "Lee", name_suffix: "", last_updated: "2010/04/13 00:00:14 +0000", party: "D", chamber: "house", state: "CA", youtube_url: "http://www.youtube.com/RepLee", first_name: "Barbara", gender: "F", congress_office: "2444 Rayburn House Office Building", earmarks: { average_number: 20, total_amount: 10000000, average_amount: 22994535, total_number: 28, last_updated: "2010-03-18", fiscal_year: 2010, } ...}

// limit selection to a subset of fieldsdb.people.find( { 'first_name' : 'john' }, { 'last_name' : 1, 'address' : 1 } );

// use dot-notation to dig into an objectdb.people.find( { 'state': 'CA' }, { 'address.zip_code': 1 } );

{legislator: { last_name: "Lee", first_name: "Barbara", state: "CA", earmarks: { average_number: 20, total_amount: 10000000, average_amount: 22994535, total_number: 28, last_updated: "2010-03-18", fiscal_year: 2010, }}

?sections=last_name,first_name,state,earmarks

{legislator: { last_name: "Lee", first_name: "Barbara", state: "CA", earmarks: { total_amount: 10000000, total_number: 28 }}

?sections=last_name,first_name,state,earmarks.total_amount,earmarks.total_number

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Partial responses make payloads

smaller

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Three Projects

✴ National Data Catalog✴ Real-Time Congress API✴ Open State Project

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50 States =50 Formats

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Schemalessness allows for

losslessness

Source Scraped JSON PythonTransform PostgreSQL

Source Scraped JSON MongoDB

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Three Projects

✴ National Data Catalog✴ Real-Time Congress API✴ Open State Project

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Thanks!sunlightlabs.com@LuigiMontanez