MongoDB at Sunlight

Open Source + Open Data

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1. MongoDB @ Sunlight Luigi Montanez luigi@sunlightfoundation.com
3. Question? @LuigiMontanez
4. Question? @LuigiMontanez Open Source + Open Data = Open Government
7. Question? @LuigiMontanez High Quality Raw Data ✴ First: Raw data in JSON, XML, or CSV ✴ Second: RESTful APIs in JSON or XML ✴ Third: Nothing else...
8. Question? @LuigiMontanez MongoDB enables open data
9. Question? @LuigiMontanez JSON has won (among developers)
10. Question? @LuigiMontanez Opening Up Data ✴ Storing data from disparate sources ✴ Data dumps ✴ Web scraping ✴ Text/PDF parsing ✴ Serving RESTful JSON APIs
11. Question? @LuigiMontanez Three Projects ✴ National Data Catalog ✴ Real-Time Congress API ✴ Open State Project
12. Question? @LuigiMontanez Three Projects ✴ National Data Catalog ✴ Real-Time Congress API ✴ Open State Project
14. Question? @LuigiMontanez App design drives schema design
16. Text { "title": "Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Hour" }
18. Text { "title": "Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Hour", "description": "Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past h "homepage": "http://data.gov/raw/32", "official_docs": "http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/", "organization": "Department of the Interior", "original_catalog": "data.gov", }
19. Text { "title": "Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Hour", "description": "Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past "homepage": "http://data.gov/raw/32", "official_docs": "http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/", "organization_id": "4cbcc0ff2c34576ba4000001", "catalog_id": "4cbcc0ab2d34d76b97020433", }
20. { "title": "Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Hour", "description": "Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past h "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" } }
22. { "title": "Worldwide M1+ Earthquakes, Past Hour", "description": "Real-time, worldwide earthquake list for the past h "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 "ratings" : { "average_rating": 3.5, "rating_count": 23 }, "comments": [] }
24. Question? @LuigiMontanez User-centric data? ✴ Source document: contains collection of user data
25. Source User A User B
26. Question? @LuigiMontanez User-centric data? ✴ Source document: contains collection of user data ✴ User document: contains collection of source data
27. User Source A Source B
28. Question? @LuigiMontanez User-centric data? ✴ Source document: contains collection of user data ✴ User document: contains collection of source data ✴ UserSource document
29. User Source UserSource
30. Question? @LuigiMontanez User-centric data? ✴ Source document: contains collection of user data ✴ User document: contains collection of source data ✴ UserSource document ✴ Rating, Favorite, Note docs
31. User Source Note Rating Favorite
32. Question? @LuigiMontanez Freedom of choice
33. Question? @LuigiMontanez Three Projects ✴ National Data Catalog ✴ Real-Time Congress API ✴ Open State Project
34. Real-Time Congress API (Drumbone) Credit: vgm8383 on Flickr
35. Android App: “Congress”
36. Politiwidgets
37. Question? @LuigiMontanez Requirements ✴ Aggregate lots of data Biographical, Bills, Votes, Earmarks, Video Clips, Floor Updates, Legislative Documents, Committee Schedules, Contributions, Interest Group Ratings ✴ Lightweight responses
38. {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, } ... }
39. // limit selection to a subset of fields db.people.find( { 'first_name' : 'john' }, { 'last_name' : 1, 'address' : 1 } ); // use dot-notation to dig into an object db.people.find( { 'state': 'CA' }, { 'address.zip_code': 1 } );
40. {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
41. {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
42. Question? @LuigiMontanez Partial responses make payloads smaller
43. Question? @LuigiMontanez Three Projects ✴ National Data Catalog ✴ Real-Time Congress API ✴ Open State Project
45. Question? @LuigiMontanez 50 States = 50 Formats
46. Question? @LuigiMontanez Schemalessness means control
47. { legislator: { firstname: "Robert", lastname: "Smith", nickname: "Bobby", chamber: "House", district: "3", state: "NJ", party: "D", main_address: { street: "123 Capitol St", city: "Trenton", state: "NJ", phone: "201-134-4334" }, other_offices: ["Mayor of Woodbridge Township"], state_id: "67T933" } }
48. Question? @LuigiMontanez Speaking JSON Natively
49. Source Scraped JSON Python Transform PostgreSQL
50. Source Scraped JSON MongoDB
51. Question? @LuigiMontanez Three Projects ✴ National Data Catalog ✴ Real-Time Congress API ✴ Open State Project
53. Question? @LuigiMontanez Thanks! sunlightlabs.com @LuigiMontanez