In the spirit of the Open Gov movement, OpenJudge is a resource that provides California citizens better access to the publicly available data on gifts disclosure by judges in the State of California. This resource provides a data visualization dashboard view of top gift receivers, gifts and donations as well as a directory that itemizes all gifts by judge and all donors by judges they have donated to.
The companion app provides tweetable breakout of individual gifts that allows citizens to share out the data as well as the opportunity to see which gifts are gathering the strongest interest on social media platforms. The premise of this resource aligns with the mission of the data providers (Capacity and the Fair Political Practices Commission) is to provide easy access to this data so that others may continue to build value on-top of this data set. A team of six that included five developers and two designers tackled the robust data provided and after much cleaning, purging, troubleshooting and coding, this team has produced a working prototype for both the website and app.