The Most Lucrative Traffic Camera in D.C.
An exploratory analysis of moving violation data in the District of Columbia.
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2018
2012
Mapping the Iowa GOP 2012 Caucus Results
Introduction On Tuesday January 3rd 2012 the Iowa Republican party held it's presidential caucuses, with Mitt Romney beating Rick Santorum by 8 votes as of n...
2011
Exploring Your Voter File with R
We perform a voter file analysis for Wake County, NC using R.
Candidate Debt in CA-36 runoff
Looking at candidate debt in the CA-36 runoff election.
FECHell 0.2.0 Released
My FEC report parsing gem has been upgraded to version 0.2.0, and now supports the latest FEC filings (7.0).
Donor analysis in R - Smith for Congress
In a previous post I introduced the Smith for Congress data set. The data is 49k contributions made by individuals to a congressional campaign for the 2006-...
Individual contributions in US House elections - Smith for Congress
Introducing the Smith for Congress individual contributor data set.
Visualizing iPhone location tracking with R and Google Maps
Visualize location logs created by the iPhone using R and Google Maps.
More Chicago Mayoral Analaysis
I perform a precincts-votes analysis on the returns from the Chicago Democratic Mayoral primary of 2011.
Mapping the 2011 Chicago Mayoral Democratic Primary
Mapping the Chicago Democratic Mayoral 2011 primary with Ruby, R, and ggplot2
2010
Visualizing US House Results with a Seats-Votes curve
A few weeks ago I wrote about ways to compare major-party returns in US House elections. I experimented with several visualizations, none as useful as the se...
New Housedata release with October 2010 filings.
The latest Offensive Politics Housedata file has been released. This file covers 51,463 individual electronic FEC filings for US House committees from 2001 t...
New housedata release 20100923
New Housedata release of 49,914 summary filings from 7897 candidates for the US House 2002-2010.
US House Election Results Visualized Five Ways
The Democratic major-party vote share of US House elections 2002-2008 visualized 5 different ways.
House Data: 41k finance summaries from 2200 candidates
I'd like to announce a new project by Offensive Politics called House Data, launching today. House Data is a large-scale extract of FEC Form 3 Summary of rec...
Voter targeting with R
Voter targeting for turnout is the process of scoring registered voters using demographic and electoral variables taken from voter lists and commercial datab...
New FECHell 0.1.9
Our FEC report file library FECHell has been updated to 0.1.9. The release includes a half dozen bug fixes and the following new features: Speed improvemen...
Re-mapping Massachusetts Special election results
I had previously posted maps showing the difference in major party vote share between the 2008 Presidential election and the 2010 special Senate election in ...
Mapping MA election results
The Swing State Project recently had some very interesting maps comparing last week's election results from Massachusetts to 2008 presidential primary result...
2009
Aggreate electoral targeting with R
Aggregate electoral targeting is the process of determining the likely hood of a citizen choosing to vote turnout), and which candidate that person is most l...
Im A Republican Because Visualized With R
permalink: /archive/:year/:month/:day/:title.html layout: single status: publish published: true title: ‘“I’‘m a Republican because…”, visualized with R’ aut...
open-source campaign finance analysis with R and MySQL
Introduction In Part 1 of this tutorial we introduced the fechell library by extracting all itemized contributions from individuals made to the Obama For Ame...
open-source campaign finance analysis with ruby and fechell
Introduction fechell is a ruby library used to extract data from electronically filed Federal Election Commission reports, saving you from the hell of parsin...
Expendicus mention on OpenSecrets Capitol Eye blog
Expendicus, along with several other entries in the Apps For America contest, got a brief mention on the OpenSecrets Capitol Eye blog for making use of CRP/O...
Apps for America contest winners announced
Yesterday the winners of the Sunlight Labs Apps For America contest were announced and I'm really excited to see that my entry Expendicus got an honorable me...
Expendicus - independent expenditure tracking for US House elections
Anyone can write a $250 campaign contribution check, but few can produce a $20,000 television commercial. When you or I donate money to a candidate’s ...