Last weekend, I spent time with a small group of friends filling out a spreadsheet of information for 2020 Senate candidates. So far, 154\/348 filed candidates have been added to the sheet. During that time, we discovered that a few candidates operate their campaign on a public Facebook profile instead of a Facebook page. In talking with Charlie, he guessed that the process in the API to collect profile data shouldn’t be too different from page data. Therefore, I am planning to collect this data as well, while noting the names with profiles in case their results are drastically different from overall results. Next, I plan to develop the scripts to start collecting and analyzing small amounts of data, planning to scale and automize them later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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