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My Bluebonnet Journey: Serving Our Country & Building a Civic Tech Family
Serving in the military & in civic tech. Tilak Bhatnagar, first-generation American & incoming US Air Force Cyber Officer.
tilakbhatnagar
Dec 22, 20216 min read
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A New Take On Black Friday & Using the Holiday Season to Give Back
Volunteering & civic engagement as a non-capitalist antidote to Black Friday
Derek
Nov 26, 20215 min read
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Thanksgiving & Climate Change: How it impacts our food production, supply chains and travel
The interconnected impact of food, travel, agricultural systems, and climate change
Christina Hahn
Nov 24, 20219 min read
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How We Spooked Republicans in 2021
In honor of Halloween this year, we wanted to highlight all of the spooky campaigns & organizations we worked with that would send a...
Christina Hahn
Oct 29, 20216 min read
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Campaign Data 101: Successful Data Case Studies & Helpful Resources (Part 4 of 4)
Welcome back to Campaign Data 101, where we break down the what, how, and why of using data to run an innovative and efficient campaign....
Becca Blais
Oct 22, 20214 min read
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Campaign Data 101: Using Data in your Campaign in Finance & Internal Operations (Part 3 of 4)
Welcome back to Campaign Data 101, where we break down the what, how, and why of using data to run an innovative and efficient campaign....
Becca Blais
Oct 20, 20213 min read
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Campaign Data 101: Using Data in your Campaign for Field, Messaging, & Policy (Part 2 of 4)
Welcome back to Campaign Data 101, where we break down the what, how, and why of using data to run an innovative and efficient campaign....
Becca Blais
Oct 20, 20215 min read
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Campaign Data 101: How to think about Data if you're not a "Data Person" (Part 1 of 4)
Welcome to Campaign Data 101, where we break down the what, how, and why of using data to run an innovative and efficient campaign. In...
Becca Blais
Oct 15, 20215 min read
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The 2020 Census: What Changed?
Overview A decennial count of all people residing in the United States is required by Article I, Section II of the Constitution. The...
Aedan Lombardo
Aug 24, 20215 min read
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HODP x Bluebonnet: Modeling Political District Similarity
Lauren Chen, Alex Cheng, Richard Zhu Introduction This semester, a team of three at the Harvard Open Data Project, a student-faculty...
Lauren Chen
Jun 1, 20214 min read
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Paulette Jordan’s Run for the Idaho Senate: Promoting Data Infrastructure Where it's Needed Most
Idaho is facing the same mix of opportunity and frustration that troubles so many traditionally red states in the U.S. While there is a...
Paul Dingus
May 28, 20214 min read
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Chloe Maxmin’s Victory in Maine: How a Data-Driven Mindset Led to Democratic Success
Even though Democrats won the presidency in 2020, it was a tough year for down-ballot progressives across the country. Though there were...
Paul Dingus
Apr 21, 20214 min read
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From Messy Election Data to Clean Visualizations
Using Mapbox to Analyze Georgia’s 2020 Election Drop Box Distribution If you are looking to create a visualization based on election data...
riyamzaman8
Feb 2, 20217 min read
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Leaving the Tech Bubble: What a Western North Carolina District Taught us About Politics
Reality exceeded our expectations when we started volunteering with Sam Edney’s campaign for North Carolina House District 113. Coming...
Margaret Reed
Jan 26, 20213 min read
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