I think the broader idea of increasing political accountability through data tracking/visualization/notification could be a powerful tool for improving democrac

I think the broader idea of increasing political accountability through data tracking/visualization/notification could be a powerful tool for improving democracy In the past I've thought about doing something similar at a local level, for county commissioners and the like. Local government - due to most people not paying attention to it - is known for having some of the highest corruption of any level. Imagine shining a light on it with data (maybe partly automated?), identifying conflicts of interest, sources of egregious waste, and elected officials who don't hold up their campaign promises. Most of this data is made public already, it's just on hard-to-find webpages and in hard-to-parse formats (and not aggregated). One could do the legwork to find it, scrape it, organize it, and then publish both the raw data and various analyses in a digestible format, and that might have a real impact. Imagine signing up to get a push notification whenever your councilman votes on an issue