Civic Celerator Fundraiser Analysis Project

The purpose of the Civic Celerator demo day is to create a project that ties together some publicly avaialbe data sets regarding political campaign spending and contribution data and to make inferences/information based on that data.

Primary Resources

• D3 Magic
• Fundraiser Notices Filed By Hawaii State and County Candidates
• Hawaii State Ethics Commission's Lobbyist Registration Statements
• Campaign Contributions Received By Hawaii State and County Candidates From November 8, 2006 Through December 31, 2013

Secondary Resources

• Unpaid Expenditures For Hawaii State and County Candidates From November 8, 2006 Through December 31, 2013
• Expenditures Made By Hawaii State and County Candidates From November 8, 2006 Through December 31, 2013
• Contributions Received By Hawaii Noncandidate Committees From January 1, 2008 Through December 31, 2013

Possible Collaboration

• UHero - http://uhero.github.io/Civic%20Celerator/campaign.html

Ideas

• Text pane describing how in-session fundraisers work
• Visual components to illustrate how lobbying works
  • http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/files/lobby_graphic_for_web_0.png
• Calendar view of when events occurred drilling down into amounts and people/organizations involved and when legislative session runs
• Fundraisers in-session vs. out-of-session

Version

Tech

Installation

License

MIT