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Governor's Race Donations Analysis #120

Closed skirmer closed 6 years ago

skirmer commented 7 years ago

About the group

We are interested in creating public-facing data visualizations and easily accessible resources about the financial contributions that are going into the Illinois 2018 governor's race.

Group leaders

Stephanie Kirmer, Andy Moon, Lilian Huang

Who we're looking for

One of our major goals is to build a shiny app that is easy to use, easy to update, and publicly accessible so people can see where contributions are coming from/going. Anyone who likes web scraping, data cleaning, and building visuals is welcome!

Tools

We plan to mostly work in R, Shiny, and possibly D3.

Relevant Links

The major data source is https://www.elections.il.gov. We haven't really started yet, besides coming up with the idea!

Where we meet

Cafeteria for now.

ziegegeist commented 7 years ago

It might be easier to take stuff from here https://www.illinoissunshine.org

This is a great project idea!

derekeder commented 7 years ago

FYI bulk downloads and an API are available for working with this data: https://www.illinoissunshine.org/about/#api

You can see how it all works as the code is open source on GitHub: https://github.com/Illinois-Campaign-for-Political-Reform/illinois-sunshine

jelias1 commented 6 years ago

Hello, I am new to Chi Hack Night and will be attending my first one tonight. Will anyone be working on this tonight? I have created a few shiny apps before and would love to talk about this project with someone!

skirmer commented 6 years ago

Hi all- we have settled on working in R, so if you are looking for Python projects I'm afraid we can't help- sorry!

Nishantkumark commented 6 years ago

Hi I would love to know more about this project. Where should I meet you guys ? Can someone set up a call and explain me few things related to this project ?

derekeder commented 6 years ago

is this breakout group still active? if not, let's close it for now

easherma commented 6 years ago

@skirmer is this project still active? We'd love an update, and let us know if you have any problems we can help address!