This project aims to create new tools to extract insights with predictive or
decision making value from the output of legislative bodies. It will
investigate whether techniques from
signal
analysis
or related mathematical fields can be used to help construct these tools. The
goal is to leverage public data from legislative bodies to reveal what in the
legislative activity is deserving if attention from a policy point of view,
either by connecting with a known policy ontology (such as the
comparative agendas
codebook), or by
surfacing issues that
should be connected to a known ontology.