| Attorney General Andrew Cuomo debuted a revamp of the Sunlight.com site, what he's calling "Sunlight 2.0."
I think the "2.0" description may be a bit of a stretch. It's more like "1.3" or something. That said, the site has been updated with all this year's member item data, interactive maps for all sorts of things and lots of new data on contracting, lobbying and whatnot.
It certainly could be a bit more user friendly on the front end and there is still some work to be done as far as making the available data useful to those looking for it. I also think that the Sunlight Foundation's Andrew Rasiej makes a very good point in his comments to Jimmy Vielkind :
It's a direct descendant of the Sunlight Foundation work in Washington, and therefore it would be terrific if the attorney general went further and made the raw data feeding the web site open and accessible to developers.
Regardless, this new version of Project Sunlight is miles beyond anything we had before and both the Attorney General and the Legislature should be commended for moving the ball forward on making the data that belongs to the people of New York actually available to them.
Kudos. |
