Systems and methods for providing a virtual whipboard

A prediction method, comprising:

• scraping the Internet to identify a currently pending legislative bill and to identify information about legislators slated to vote on the pending bill;
• parsing the information to determine a tendency position for each legislator, wherein the tendency position reflects a prediction of how each legislator is likely to vote on the pending bill;
• transmitting for display to a system user a virtual whipboard that groups legislators into a plurality of groups based on determined tendency positions;
• receiving from the system user, a selected one of the plurality of groups of legislators selected for a communication interaction based on the determined tendency position of the group;
• accessing a legislator database that includes legislative communication addresses of legislative personnel scraped from the Internet and divided into a plurality of legislative function categories;
• receiving from the system user, a selection of at least one of the plurality of legislative function categories;
• and
• exporting, to a communication platform, the communication addresses of the legislative personnel associated with both the selected group of legislative function categories and the selected one of the plurality of groups of legislators.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by at least one processing device, the instructions including instructions for:

• scraping the Internet to identify a currently pending legislative bill and to identify information about legislators slated to vote on the pending bill;
• parsing the information to determine a tendency position for each legislator, wherein the tendency position reflects a prediction of how each legislator is likely to vote on the pending bill;
• transmitting for display to a system user a virtual whipboard that groups legislators into plurality of groups based on determined tendency positions;
• receiving from the system user, a selected one of the plurality of groups of legislators selected for a communication interaction based on the determined tendency position of the group;
• accessing a legislator database that includes legislative communication addresses of legislative personnel scraped from the Internet and divided into a plurality of legislative function categories;
• receiving from the system user, a selection of at least one of the plurality of legislative function categories;
• and
• exporting, to a communication platform, the communication addresses of the legislative personnel associated with both the selected group of legislative function categories and the selected one of the plurality of groups of legislators.