Improvements in New York Times’ Fech Makes It Easier to Follow the Money

Having data available electronically is not the same thing as the data being useful. Campaign finance disclosures provided electronically by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), are a good example of that. The New York Times‘s Fech (not “fetch”) is a RubyGem – a packaged application – designed to help journalists and public interest organizations access and make sense of FEC filings.