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Inspiration
As many of us are recent arrivals to SF and have moved in the last year, we all feel the good and the bad of the city and it's policies, but don't see a clear way to get involved. The actions of the Board of Supervisors (BoS) are pivotal, yet often shrouded in bureaucratic complexity. The inspiration for Poliscope stems from the desire to bridge this gap, making the legislative process more transparent, engaging, and intelligible to the everyday citizen.
What it does
Poliscope serves as a digital lens into the workings of the San Francisco BoS. It amalgamates data from various sources, processes, and categorizes it, providing a visually intuitive platform for users to explore recent resolutions, voting patterns, and the stances of individual supervisors. Through an interactive timeline of bills and a summary page for each politician, it cultivates a more informed electorate, fostering a more dialogic relationship between the governed and the governing.
How we built it
We pulled a large chunk of data from the legistar data, and pushed it through a series of models
Challenges we ran into
Scraping the older websites involved a massive amount of work, and data from the SF Open City API was dramatically different in comparisons
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Building a system in such a short time!
What we learned
How to connect to city data sources!
What's next for Poliscope
Stage 0: Transparency and bills Stage 1: Explorer, understanding relevance Stage 2: Smart City: intelligent infra/planning development.
Built With
- beautiful-soup
- langchain
- llm
- openai
- sql
- supabase
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