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SFSU students preview interactive 2014 campaign-finance visualization showing $25M in November spending
Summary
San Francisco State graduate students showed an interactive Tableau visualization of November 2014 campaign finance records, reporting about $25 million in November spending, with roughly $12 million in consultant expenditures driven largely by Measure E. The Ethics Commission praised the tool and asked staff about keeping it updated.
Students from San Francisco State University presented an interactive data-visualization preview of November 2014 campaign finance activity to the San Francisco Ethics Commission on Feb. 23. The project, built in Tableau and fed from the city's open-data portal, aggregates the full 2014 election cycle filings and allows users to explore contributors, consultants, PACs, lobbyist contacts and county central committee funding.
The students, Kristen Walsigle and Jeff Thorsby, said the tool shows nearly $25 million in spending in the November 2014 elections (not including the June primary), with about $22 million spent on positions that won and roughly $3 million on positions…
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