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After reading about Azavea’s involvement in the realm of elections, you won’t be surprised to hear that over the past several months we’ve been paying a lot of attention to Cicero, our elected official and legislative district boundary web API. The most obvious, major change to Cicero is the new website which has received a recent makeover! Visitors to the site can now get a thorough taste of Cicero’s offerings, including our live feed of the latest elections events from around the world, the opportunity to try the ‘Cicero Live’ web site, and – should you be a programmer – the option to sign up for a 30-day free trial of the Cicero API. For the Cicero die-hards out there, check out our Cicero News page.
The changes to Cicero go beyond appearances! Our Cicero data research team has hunkered down and have been researching and preparing several new sets of data.
With over 11,250 elected officials and 9,000 elected districts, we’ve recently been focusing on adding new legislative assemblies from across the world to our data offerings. In fact, we just announced the release of state and national legislative district and elected official lookups for Australia and New Zealand.
We also turned our attention to non-legislative district data. Via the Cicero API, our clients can now conduct address-based lookups for a wide variety of non-legislative data. In addition to school district data for the entire United States (which we’ve been offering for the past year), we have added police district boundaries for 25 of the most populated cities in the United States, county boundaries for the entire country, and watershed boundary data at the HUC 2 through HUC 8 levels.
Why are we adding entirely new types of boundary datasets? Our clients use legislative district boundaries and the associated elected official data to populate constituent databases with district ID’s for use in mailings, to perform constituent analysis, to drive e-mail campaigns and to provide their constituents with a tool to contact their elected officials. But our clients serve a wide variety of causes and populations. Some might be conducting environmental advocacy or analysis projects, others may be interested in understanding voter patterns in relation to other non-legislative districts while others may want to be able to identify in which police precincts their constituents live or work. No matter what causes or activities they pursue, our client’s know they can depend on Cicero’s ever expanding and up-to-date datasets!
