3.1 Data: FOIA Requests

The FOIA Predictor’s data comes from MuckRock, a “a non-profit, collaborative news site that brings together journalists, researchers, activists, and regular citizens to request, analyze, and share government documents, making politics more transparent and democracies more informed.” MuckRock maintains a system that you can use to file and track FOIA requests, which makes it an easy source of data on both successful and unsuccessful requests.

We’re going to cheat a little bit and use the same dataset that FOIA Predictor uses instead of downloading and creating our own.