R PROGRAMMING

### This file contains your main code. ### Feel free to rename it, or split it into several files. ### ### Your final product should contain the code along the following lines: library(httr) library(dplyr) library(jsonlite) ## ---------- Google Civic Information API ---------- ## 1. create the google civic platform request and httr::GET() the result ## you need to include your api key in the request. See the documentation ## https://developers.google.com/civic-information/ ## https://developers.google.com/civic-information/docs/v2/ ## in particular the reference section. ## ## Note: you can try the requests by submitting these through your browser by entering the ## full query (base url, endpoint, query) in your browser's address bar. ## If it is correct correct, it will display the corresponding JSON data. If ## incorrect, you get an error message.

## 2. extract the elected officials' data from the result ## The data contains many relevant variables, including normalized address, ## 'offices' and 'officials'. In order to attach the officials (people) ## with offices (jobs), I recommend to use dplyr joins (what would be the key?) ## More about joins in ## https://info201.github.io/dplyr.html#joins ## http://r4ds.had.co.nz/relational-data.html

## 3. transform the data into a well formatted table ## I recommend you transform the data into markdown strings. For instance, ## to display a html link as a link in the markdown file, you may want to ## embed it between "[](" and ")". ## ## You may want to consider improved table printing, look for details at the rmarkdown ## page at ## http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/index.html ##

## -------------------- propublica -------------------- ## 4. Get state representatives from propublica congress API ## you need the respective API key. ## ## Note1: the api key must be sent as 'X-API-Key'. No other name, such as 'api-key' ## will work. ## ## Note2: Propublica API has several endpoints. The relevant one here is 'members'. ## It which allows you to get lists of members, lists of members by state, ## specific member by id, voting data, and more. ## ## Read the documentation: ## https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/members/ ## ## ## 5. transform it in a form you can use for visualizations. ## ## For the first visualization you have to extract the party affiliation of all the members ## and make a histogram of that data. ## ## 6. pick a representative. ## ## Note: this representative must correspond to the state the address points to. Different ## states have different number of representatives, I recommend to pick one of these at random. ## ## 7. get this representative's info ## ## Consult the 'members' endpoint and the examples related to information about a particular member. ## ## 8. get her recent votes. ## ## In order to get the percentage of votes with majority, you have: ## a) get the member's voting data (see the same API documentation) ## b) pick the most recent votes (the data includes vote date) ## c) find her position (Yes/No) ## d) find the total votes (yes/no) ## Consult the example in the API documentation that includes the relevant JSON result.