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Clarify that overview chart data is based on latest reports #1713

Closed noahmanger closed 7 years ago

noahmanger commented 7 years ago

It came up in a stakeholder presentation in DC that the charts here should specify that this is based on the numbers as reported to date, so as to not mislead people in thinking that, say, the number they see for November 1 is the actual amount spent or raised at that date.

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I know there's some language trickiness, as saying "reported" might confuse people, but I think we should try to clarify this.

emileighoutlaw commented 7 years ago

We didn't talk about this in our meeting today, but I do think we should put it in this sprint because 1) it's content work I have time for/believe I could implement and 2) the outcome of this will also impact how we display raising and spending on the homepage.

What do you think @noahmanger ? Can I pull it into sprint 2?

noahmanger commented 7 years ago

Yeah, if you have time for it, I think it would be good to do. What do you think @AmyKort ?

AmyKort commented 7 years ago

I think that's a great idea. Thanks.

emileighoutlaw commented 7 years ago

How about something like this:

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With a little bit of introductory text, we can introduce the players (candidates, parties, and PACs) as well as pull the glossary links out of the actual chart, which has always felt a little strange to me. It also allows us to explain how reporting works a little and gives us a spot to build a pathway from data to the reporting and compliance section (italicized), if we wanted to do that.

AmyKort commented 7 years ago

Works for me. pinging @PaulClark2

PaulClark2 commented 7 years ago

Looks good to me, too.

noahmanger commented 7 years ago

@emileighoutlaw this look right? image

I made this change in this branch https://github.com/18F/openFEC-web-app/pull/1729

emileighoutlaw commented 7 years ago

Beautiful. Made one small note in that PR.