Our team created this data visualization to submit for the 2016 Hawaii Annual Code Challenge.
This was submitted to DevPost as Campaign Contributions by Industry Segment -- What industry groups give the most to candidates for political office?.
The Campaign Spending Commission provides a tremendous amount of Candidate Contribution and Expenditure data available through data.hawaii.gov. We identify the “area, scope, or jurisdiction” of contributors so that voters can see how much a particular industry contributed to candidates. It would be very interesting, for example, to see how much the construction industry contributed to each of the mayoral candidates and over a specific period of time.
It is one thing to see who contributed to a particular candidate, how often they contributed, and how much they contributed. That data is accessible in data.hawaii.gov and using the tools Socrata makes available one can filter, group, and total records fairly easily.
We enable grouping by industry segments to allow reporting based on "special interests". For example, knowing how much energy companies contributed to a candidate might give us an idea of where that candidate would stand on an alternative energy proposal.
- Andrew Sasaki
- Vernon Yoshida
- Russ Tokuyama