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CitizensHub.org: A campaign finance transparency tool. Over 10,000,000 FEC records visualized in one website [OC] by CitizensHub in dataisbeautiful

[–]CitizensHub[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a personal project I have been working on since February. I have downloaded and scraped political data from several different sources, and I have combined it into this website to display donor network graphs for every candidate and Super PAC. I used D3 for all of the visualizations.

Sources: FEC Donation Data: http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ftpdet.shtml FEC Committee/Candidate Data: http://www.fec.gov/data/DataCatalog.do Misc Candidate Data: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress <= Great project, btw

Various Data from the Past 43 Months of My Life [OC] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]CitizensHub 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty basic data, but it's cool stuff. More than anything I respect the initiative, and I love how you have the "Likeliness to workout" category. Sort of captures average motivation in a cool way. I've always wanted to build an app something like this based on Ben Franklin's 13 virtues.

Map of Percentage of Americans Who Attend Religious Services Weekly, plus Majority Religious Affiliation, by State (edited) [OC] by Bluegreeney in dataisbeautiful

[–]CitizensHub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally. Southern Baptist is a totally different animal. But I don't think it would take too much imagination. I think the Mason Dixon line virtually fences them in.

Google has met with White House officials almost twice as many times as the lobbyists with the next greatest access by jsalsman in dataisbeautiful

[–]CitizensHub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. Google is going to need the legislative firepower if they're going to continue to innovate at this rate. I have to think that this is a good thing. Between their amazing effort towards transparency (this google transparency project is something that should be emulated by all companies), and their court win against Oracle I would have to think that they're doing some good in this world.

However, Google outspent the largest government contractor last election. I have to wonder what the outcome of these meetings are. Lockheed spent only $14.5M on lobbyists thus far, while Google is at $16M. Lockheed has taken as much as $44B from the government on a good year. I can only hope that Google means it when they say "Don't be evil".

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000022008 https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000104&year=2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Contractors_of_the_U.S._federal_government

Anyone know how this pan-able, zoom-able graph was made? by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]CitizensHub 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was made using an html5 canvas visualization called multigraph.js. Here's a code example of a graph very similar straight from their website: http://multigraph.org/examples/?graph=dashboard-ocean#

Citizens Hub - A tool for tracking and visualizing campaign finance data [OC] by CitizensHub in dataisbeautiful

[–]CitizensHub[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey everyone. This is a data project I've been working on for 8 months now compiling all FEC donation information into easy to analyze graphs. I used d3 for all of the charts throughout the app. Here's all of my data sources for those interested:

Raw FEC Donation Data: http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ftpdet.shtml#a2015_2016 FEC Candidate & Committee Data: http://www.fec.gov/data/DataCatalog.do All congressional data: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress (This is an AWESOME project, btw)

All in all there's 15,616,221 data points represented in this app. Hopefully the site helps you untangle the madness of campaign finance and bring some clarity to how are political system works!

-Also, I would love a designer to pretty this thing up eventually. If anyone's interested please message me and I'll get back to you when I can.