Decide on topic

[kerrylecure]

hi pals — if we've all installed git to our computers and have each set up RStudio, then we should decide on a topic we want to do. personally, i'm not too picky but i think we should do something fairly simple but interesting so we can do it well. we probably want to use join and possibly a function.

[kerrylecure]

right now i guess i'm thinking doing something with contributions to candidates i'm just not sure what, exactly???

[madeleinehickman]

I like that idea! Maybe if we could say something about contributions made from different sectors (ex: did a lot of money come from businesses in the fuel industry to support a republican candidate?) or something, if the data sets have that info.

[kerrylecure]

that sounds good. we should probably check the dataset/find out if we can get that info from it.

[madeleinehickman]

If we look at entity type would we use a bar graph?

[kerrylecure]

we probably need entity_tp, cand_id. probably need to join cand_id to cand_name in the candidates file.

[kerrylecure]

the candidates file also has the candidate's party

[madeleinehickman]

CAND_PTY_AFFILIATION this is the name for it

[kerrylecure]

percentage of contributions facet_wrap'd by party?? i think having the candidates could make it difficult though so is there a way to have it converted into solely parties?

[kerrylecure]

cand_id joined to cand_pty_affiliation