Analytics/Visualization, Reporting & Applications/Ideas

Data Repositories

 * CKAN http://ckan.org/ -- http://docs.ckan.org/en/ckan-1.8/

Gov-Related

 * FEC filings from the last few decades: http://www.fec.gov/data/
 * Bills and legislators: http://www.govtrack.us/
 * Lots of data, but hard to access: http://votesmart.org/
 * A nice tool/repository for extracting and sharing data: https://scraperwiki.com/