Moore explained that an API from Sunlight would rely on a scraping process that would involve Sunlight going the extra steps
of «going through the website everyday, and seeing what's new,
storing it, sorting it, categorizing it, and then putting it back out to the public,» while it would be most
valuable for the Council to be the «primary
data publisher about what's going on in their legislative actions, and what's happening with different issues.»
To be most
valuable to a lender, a credit score must extract all the predictive power from all
of the credit
data about a consumer that is
stored at that consumer reporting agency (CRA).