Political Cartography 2.0: Web Mapping & The Election Cycle
A look at how your organization can enhance its database with geodata
and mashups to create walk lists, enhance its GOTV efforts, or just
track who Congress is having lunch with today.
Co-Chair: Chadwick Matlin - Co-founder, MapTheCandidates.com
Chadwick Matlin cofounded MaptheCandidates.com in June 2007. He graduated from Tufts University in 2007 with a degree in anthropology and a concentration in media. Matlin has worked for Boston's NPR news affiliate, WBUR, ABC News' Washington Bureau, and was an associate producer on a piece for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Matlin has also cotaught a class on the intersection of media and technology with his MTC partner, E.J. Kalafarski. He is currently the visiting Dutko Fellow at Slate Magazine.
Co-Chair: E. J. Kalafarski - Co-founder, MapTheCandidates.com
E. J. Kalafarski is the cofounder of MaptheCandidates.com, with longtime collaborator Chadwick Matlin. Kalafarski and Matlin previously teamed up in the spring of 2007 to develop and teach a course at Tufts University on the changing landscape of conventional and new media.
Prior to his work with Matlin, Kalafarski aided the communications team at Fogarty for Governor in Rhode Island during the 2006 election cycle. For the last year, Kalafarski has developed Web applications at Digital Bungalow, an interactive agency in Salem, Mass. He has written for Roll Call.
Kalafarski received a Bachelor's degree in English and Computer Science, with a focus on communications and media, from Tufts University in 2006.
James Turk - Web Developer, Sunlight Labs
James Turk is a web developer for Sunlight Labs, the technology arm for the Sunlight Foundation where he has focused on several projects involving geodata and political boundaries, including the open source polipoly library which powers the geography component of the Sunlight API. He has also worked on distributed research projects such as EarmarkWatch.org. James is finishing up his studies in Computer Science and Political Science at Rochester Institute for Technology. Before joining the Sunlight Labs, he also spent time working at Project Vote Smart.
Patrick Ottenhoff is the author of The Electoral Map and an analyst for New Media Strategies. As author of The Electoral Map, Ottenhoff draws on his lifelong fascination in geography but also on a diverse background in politics and journalism. In the 2006 campaign cycle, he wrote for the National Journal Group, where he covered demographics, advertising and House politics for NationalJournal.com and was later named the polling staff writer and analyst for The Hotline. In 2004, he live-blogged the Republican National Convention from Madison Square Garden. He has also worked on several politics campaigns, both inside the Beltway and in the states, but considers his politics somewhere between Mark Warner and John Warner. Ottenhoff hails from McLean, Va. and graduated from Union College.
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