Write introduction for "Download bulk data" section

[PaulClark2]

Write something about bulk data to help people understand why they might need it

• [ ] Find out what Christian and Jason need the blurbs to say to help bulk data users
• [ ] Write the descriptions

Related to https://github.com/18F/openFEC-web-app/issues/2318 "Complete mapping data catalog and FTP data to advanced data pages"

[PaulClark2]

http://classic.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ftp_download.shtml

http://classic.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ftpdet.shtml

http://classic.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ftpsum.shtml

Data Catalog, http://classic.fec.gov/data/DataCatalog.do: each data set has a description

[jenniferthibault]

Clarification:

This issue is specifically about the text that introduces the "Download bulk data" tab on the Advanced data section. It is a content design task which might start with gathering input from data & press folks.

Developing the individual descriptions for each data set will be a separate task that @PaulClark2 is making an issue for.

[jenniferthibault]

And some extra background on the difference between the data available for download as .CSVs in the other sections, and the data collected for download in this bulk data section:

In https://github.com/18F/openFEC-web-app/issues/2318 we were figuring out how the data on the classic site mapped to the architecture of the new site.

It's important to know that this was about integrating two types of data:

• Data from the data catalog (which are .CSV files that most users of diverse skill levels could use if they wanted)
• Data from the former FTP site (which is huge and used mainly by expert level data-heavy folks who are setting up their own databases)

Originally we wanted to integrate all of it into the existing sections, as seen in this InVision prototype from the design issue #2265

Then we realized that the FTP data files don’t split nicely along those lines. For example, there are files that contain receipts and disbursements, so they wanted to have them listed in both Raising and Spending sections. This broke our principle of ~ “Only have content in one place”… so instead of putting the same data set in two places, we moved the FTP downloads into its own “Download bulk data” tab.

We're hoping that the introductory text this issue focuses on can help to communicate the relevant bits of this that are useful to people's understanding of what the data in the tab is and is not.

[jenniferthibault]

Closing because we moved this to the cms repo in https://github.com/18F/fec-cms/issues/1532