Crowdsourced document analysis and MP expenses
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on December 20, 2009
As you may have heard, the UK government released a fresh batch of MP expenses documents a week ago on Thursday. I spent that week working with a small team at Guardian HQ to prepare for the release. Here’s what we built:
http://mps-expenses2.guardian.co.uk/
It’s a crowdsourcing application that asks the public to help us ...
Investigate your MP's expenses
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on June 19, 2009
Investigate your MP’s expenses. Launched today, this is the project that has been keeping me ultra-busy for the past week—we’re crowdsourcing the analysis of the 700,000+ scanned MP expenses documents released this morning. It’s the Guardian’s first live Django-powered application, and the first time we’ve hosted something on EC2.
Investigate your MP's expenses
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on June 19, 2009
Investigate your MP’s expenses. Launched today, this is the project that has been keeping me ultra-busy for the past week—we’re crowdsourcing the analysis of the 700,000+ scanned MP expenses documents released this morning. It’s the Guardian’s first live Django-powered application, and also the first time we’ve hosted something on EC2.


