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Photo by Alex Bruns/PBS NewsHourHow do you measure the effectiveness of a politician How can you tell if the new voter identification laws will affect your ability to vote What are your chances of being frisked by a New York City police officer based on the neighborhood you are in In each of these cases there an app for that.Over the weekend the Sunlight Foundation, NPR and The Washington Post sponsored the 2012 Election Hackathon an event organized to bring Web developers together for a two-day programming jam
stanley cup session to create political apps for the upcoming election. The contest is setup to allow developers 26 hours to build a Web-based application using an interface from one or more of the three sponsoring organizations. Simply explained, the interface is a set of formatted and usable data that can be sourced by the unique application. For example, Justin
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stanley cup ontributors. The app sources information provided by Sunlight application programming interface, or API. For the developers, the hackathon is appealing because it allows them to collaborate and compete for prizes. For the sponsors, the event gives exposure to their API and the data they have available.This is the first time we have done this and ideally they are going to build something that will be useful, said Dave Goldbe Lncx Kennedy Center to honor Debbie Allen, Joan Baez, others in rescheduled ceremony
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