The Sunlight Foundation and The University of Chicago’s Center for Data Science and Public Policy showcased three tools that can be used to sift through open government data at a SXSW panel: Open States, which tracks bills and voting records for legislators in all 50 states; the Legislative Influence Detector (LID), which checks how much of a bill has been plagiarized from another source; and DSSG’s Earmarks Tracker, which is a series of scripts that searches through congressional texts.