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Your Seat at the Table

The Obama-Biden Transition Team posted these documents when they met with interest groups during the transition. On that page, you could track those meetings, view documents provided to the transition team and leave comments for the team.

The site allows users to search for download all of the documents (mostly scanned PDFs) as well as some of the included metadata.

 

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Use entity extraction to identify organizations in memos

The documents submitted to the Obama-Biden transition team are filled with the names of organizations, individuals, places and other important terms. Use entity extraction to identify the organizations to make it easier for reporters to find potential stories spread across this vast quantity of documents.

Use OCR to make scanned-in memos searchable

The Your Seat at the Table documents provide a treasure trove of information supplied to the Obama-Biden transition team from lobbyists, governmental organizations, citizens and other sources. All of these documents are available in PDF format, but not of all of them appear as searchable text, which reporters would need if they were looking for specific information contained in reams of pages.

Scrape database of PDF files

Scrape the Obama-Biden transition team's Your Seat at the Table database of more than 2,000 PDF files and associated metadata for easy analysis.

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