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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==NPDEV Maplight Session Notes==<br />
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*Maplight tracks the influence of money in politics.<br />
*Takes public campaign finance data and analyzes/presents how it influnces politics.<br />
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*KY Senate race - $12 million each side spent in 2014, more money was spent than ever,but # of donors decreased<br />
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*Where maplight data comes from: FEC, state-level data, local-level data<br />
*Difficulties: integration of multiple data sources & cleaning up messy data<br />
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*Where does data come from:<br />
**FEC.gov - massive flatfile downloads that need a *lot* of cleanup/processing/deduplication<br />
**Challenge is to match up the data to present an accurate view, and at the same time find examples of funny business<br />
**Another challenge is figuring out who donated to who - that data is messy<br />
**Name mispellings, company relationships, pac details<br />
**Problems with relying on external data sources that may go down, format may change, etc.<br />
**Have developed an internal crowd-sourcing tool to deal with these issues<br />
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*FEC standardizer tool<br />
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==Presentation:==<br />
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*Direct communication with journalists, etc.<br />
*Website tools<br />
*Legislation: - maplight.org<br />
*Supporters/opposers list, contributions, map, timeline<br />
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*Voter Information: - votersedge.org<br />
*Presents voter guides augmented with contribution info<br />
*Embeddable widgets<br />
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*Dealing with the traffic for votersedge was very hard - the maplightfolks did an unfathomable amount of work to put together a spectacular tool!</div>Vivian