VIP Hackathon
March 28, 2014
developers.google.com/civic-information

About me
developers.google.com/civic-information
Fumi Yamazaki
Program manager
Civic Innovation team, Google
fumiy@google.com
https://plus.google.com/+FumiYamazaki/

Why does Google care?
Search traffic for "where do I vote"
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Google Civic Information API
● voterInfoQuery
● Location ⇒ Polling Place, Early Vote Location,
Ballot Info, Local Election Officials
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● Need more quota? Form off the APIs Console
● Join the Google Group to share + get support
google-civicinfo-api@googlegroups.com
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● Election ID: 2000 This is test data.
● NYC addresses return polling places.
● Try KS addresses for candidates:
1176 SW HIGH AVE TOPEKA KS 66604-3957
1408 SW BYRON ST TOPEKA KS 66604-2831
9519 JOHNSON DR MERRIAM KS 66203-3143
11620 W 118TH TER OVERLAND PARK KS 66210-2039
● Expected polling place publishing dates:
○ Primary Election: August 27 (Election 4010)
○ General Election: October 17 (Election ID TBD)
For NYC Mayoral 2013
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Open Source Projects
Voter Information Tool

Open Source Projects
Election Results

Open Source Projects
● Voter Information: code.google.
com/p/voter-info-tool
● Election Results Maps: code.google.
com/p/election-maps

Google Civic Information API
Who represents me?
● representativeInfoQuery
● Location ⇒ federal, state, county and
municipal elected officials
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Google Civic Information API
Map Your Representatives
http://mapyourreps.appspot.com/

Google Civic Information API
Map Your Representatives
http://mapyourreps.appspot.com/
Impact Hub
901 Mission St
San Francisco

Google Civic Information API
Representatives
http://mapyourreps.appspot.com/

Google Civic Information API
Change.org
change.org

Google Fusion Tables
● Online tables for big data
● Visualizations: chart, map, network graph
● Google Drive Integration
● Find public data and merge
● Free developer API
google.com/fusiontables

Freebase & Knowledge Graph

Freebase & Knowledge Graph
An entity graph of people, places
and things, built by a community
that loves open data.
● Powers the Knowledge Graph
● Community-defined structured schemas
● Open for addition and edits
freebase.com

Google Cloud Platform
All of Voting Information Project hackathon
participants receives $500 of credit to build app
http://cloud.google.com/starterpack
1. Click Apply Now
2. Complete the form with this promo code:
voting-hack
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