Total raised and total spent by candidates should be defined with respect to a time period or election cycle.

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Understanding Alabama Campaign Finance Data

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Total raised and total spent by candidates should be defined with respect to a time period or election cycle. #108

Open tarifhaque opened 9 years ago

tarifhaque commented 9 years ago

We just need to bracket the totals we're computing with respect to a filing cycle or year. Otherwise the data we're presenting has no context and can be summations of money from arbitrary amounts of time.

Taitrnator commented 9 years ago

were pulling from one year at a time right now. 2014 I believe. I think we could do two things here..allow users to select a year, and label the active year on the front end.

mwleeds commented 9 years ago

On the back-end we do have a "filed_year" field for the calendar year. We could move to election cycle instead of calendar year but I think at this point we should just make the front-end aware of that field.