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Nebraska data appears to be sparse #69

Closed dturnbull closed 10 years ago

dturnbull commented 10 years ago

There are only 3 companies showing up as giving money in Nebraska in the latest data. That doesn't seem right, especially given activity around Keystone XL -- you'd expect TransCanada or associated companies to be in there.

michalgm commented 10 years ago

I noticed this before, and unfortunately this is how it is in the underlying data. Hmmm...I know I wrote up some sort of report about this, but can't find it anywhere. Anyway, you can see the problem is even on nimsp's website: http://www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/contributor_details.phtml?s=NE&y=2010&i=33&f=S

My guess is that either Nebraska has either very lax reporting requirements or (less likely) very strict contribution regulations. We can ask NIMSP about it, though it doubt it is likely to change anytime soon. We may just want to take nebraska off the list.

I'll let you know if I find my analysis.

--greg

On 09/10/2013 03:26 PM, dturnbull wrote:

There are only 3 companies showing up as giving money in Nebraska in the latest data. That doesn't seem right, especially given activity around Keystone XL -- you'd expect TransCanada or associated companies to be in there.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/michalgm/state_dem/issues/69.

stanleyjones commented 10 years ago

We decided yesterday to go ahead and pull NE and ND. That solution closes this issue.

michalgm commented 10 years ago

Shouldn't I change the code before we close the bug? :)

On 09/26/2013 11:04 AM, Stanley Jones wrote:

We decided yesterday to go ahead and pull NE and ND. That solution closes this issue.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/michalgm/state_dem/issues/69#issuecomment-25189602.

stanleyjones commented 10 years ago

Ha, sure. I was thinking that the issue was that the data was sparse and the decision to hide it "fixed" that problem. But by all means, go ahead and close it via code. :)

michalgm commented 10 years ago

OK - no more NE and ND