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Texas Ethics Commission - Schema Loader

This is a PostgreSQL schema loader for the data provided by Texas Ethics Commission.

We provide a utility to

extract schema from PDSERF/Plus format export by reading the ReadMe files and parse them to determine the schema, types, and keys and constraints.
create the tables needed to load up the 1295 certs -- these are hand written from the pdf documentation by provided by TEC
load the data up from csv format into the tables we create

Internally, lines from PDSERF readme are either,

Table Description rows
Column Description-cotd rows
Column rows
Start-rows for table (Start with "Record #:")
End-rows for table (Containing just a -)

Column lines are either

Indented as part of a group (array) replicated a certain amount of times
Derived from a "single line"

All data is loaded up into PostgreSQL, including the Descriptions which we pull down as COMMENTS.

You can find the readmes from the Texas Ethics Commission added in this project here:

Coverage

This module loads has full coverage of the meta-data, and data of the TEC.

Lobby Reports (tables l_*)

tec.l_awardmementodata         tec.l_foodbeveragedata
tec.l_coversheetladata         tec.l_giftdata
tec.l_docketdata               tec.l_individualreportingdata
tec.l_entertainmentdata        tec.l_subjectmatterdata
tec.l_eventdata                tec.l_transportationdata

Campaign Finance Reports (tables c_*)

tec.c_assetdata         tec.c_creditdata        tec.c_finaldata
tec.c_candidatedata     tec.c_debtdata          tec.c_loandata
tec.c_contributiondata  tec.c_expendcategory    tec.c_pledgedata
tec.c_coversheet1data   tec.c_expenddata        tec.c_spacdata
tec.c_coversheet2data   tec.c_expendrepayment   tec.c_traveldata
tec.c_coversheet3data   tec.c_filerdata

1295 Certs

tec.form1295_box123            tec.form1295_interested_party

Links

TEC data.
PDSERF format

Installation

Requirements: PostgreSQL, git, curl

Repo download and database setup (example in bash):

$ git clone https://github.com/EvanCarroll/db-Texas-Ethics-Commission.git
$ cd ./db-Texas-Ethics-Commission
$ make
$ createdb mydb
$ psql -d mydb -f ./runme.sql 2>&1 | tee out.log
$ make clean