The DMV project focuses on analyzing the locations of DMV offices in states that require voter ID. Do some states place more or less of a burden on their citizens who are looking for IDs?
Scrapes data from state DMV websites and uses geopy to get gps coordinates for all offices.
Sticks these together.
Pulls demographs data from the US Census API and from US Census website.
Merges above data and plots some from 7 states.
The Twitter project focuses on analyzing tweets from (primary) election days to determine what voters are upset about and where those voters are.
Pulled down all English-language public election-related tweets on Tuesday April 26, a primary election day in several northeast states, storing them in a SQLite database.
Accesses SQLite db, and creates csv file.
Pulls all latitude/longitude coordinates from above tweets, and determines addresses for those for northwest of globe (~North America).
Analyzes sentiment in election day tweets and looks for topics that emerge in the negative tweets.