UW News
Nicholas Stramp
April 25, 2014
Online ‘Legislative Explorer’ uses big data to track decades of lawmaking
![John Wilkerson, creator of the Legislative Explorer](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/04/04183544/Wilkerson2012-150x150.jpg)
University of Washington political scientist John Wilkerson has matched data visualization with the study of lawmaking to create a new online tool for researchers and students called the Legislative Explorer. Think of it as big data meeting up with How a Bill Becomes a Law. “The goal was to get beyond the ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ narrative…