Changing K Street with Online Legislative Data Analysis Two enterprising, recent Harvard grads have set out to influence legislative and policy practices on Capitol Hill with a data analytics platform that compiles, distills and packages publically available information that has historically been very time consuming to track. Quorum Analytics, the startup founded by Alex Wirth and Jonathan Marks, has created a searchable database that leverages algorithms to efficiently and comprehensively follow the movements of Congress — members' voting records, relationships, bill sponsorship and effectiveness; census and industry-specific data; press releases and tweets; etc. — in a matter of seconds. Built by Harvard and MIT students, Quorum's data analytics platform processes more than 800 million d

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