OpenSecrets goes open data

Transparency advocates received some great news today thanks to OpenSecrets.org: They’re providing almost 20 years of money-in-politics data, about 200 million records, to the public, free and downloadable.

What a deal! Not only can people can access data about money’s influence on politics, but developers can take the data and mash it up with other data sets and create new apps.

You can check it out here.