Sarah’s Inbox builds on Elena’s Inbox, a similar project launched almost exactly a year ago using email data of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan released by the Clinton Library. Only, this time there’s more moose.
You can look through more than 14,000 emails from Sarah Palin’s tenure as Governor of Alaska; sort, search or star emails for later viewing. On Twitter? Let us know if you find anything interesting by tweeting your results with the hashtag #sarahsinbox.
http://sarahsinbox.com
One word of warning: the data's far from perfect. Alaska insisted on printing out the emails rather than simply providing the files. As a result, we've had to write a lot of code and do a lot of manual review to add structure back to the documents. Unfortunately, it's not practical to do this perfectly. We think the tool is a great way to explore an interesting dataset, but be sure to check out any discoveries you make against the original documents.
Special thanks to the Sunlight Foundation for the link!
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