Re:How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members...
by cachemiss on Thursday June 07, 2018 @01:57PM
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I've considered something like that, but instead of trying to figure out crimes, it would produce a score for bills.
A corruption score for bills, almost like a facebook for bills "This bill is friends with Exxon". It would figure out who spent the most getting the bill passed, and who they bought off to get it.
Just a simple thing for people to point to when they say things are corrupt. Granted in today's environment, that score would be 100% most of the time, but it would be interesting to have some idea just who bought the bill.
Re:How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members...
by smt88 on Thursday June 07, 2018 @02:33PM
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Some of the coding-friendly news orgs like ProPublica have done one-off versions of this. It'd be great to have an ongoing tool to check the scores at any time.
A corruption score for bills, almost like a facebook for bills "This bill is friends with Exxon". It would figure out who spent the most getting the bill passed, and who they bought off to get it.
Just a simple thing for people to point to when they say things are corrupt. Granted in today's environment, that score would be 100% most of the time, but it would be interesting to have some idea just who bought the bill.