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March 10, 2012

Campaign Finance Data in Real Time

Filed under: Data Source,Politics — Patrick Durusau @ 8:21 pm

Campaign Finance Data in Real Time by DEREK WILLIS.

From the post:

Political campaigns can change every day. The Campaign Finance API now does a better job of keeping pace.

We worked with ProPublica, one of the heaviest users of the API, to make the API more real-time, and to surface more data, such as itemized contributions for every presidential candidate and “super PAC”.

When the API was launched, most of the data it served up was updated every week or, in some cases, on a daily basis. But we work for news organizations, and what is news right now can be old news tomorrow. Committees that raise and spend money influencing federal elections are filing reports every day, not just on the day that reports are due.

If you are mapping political data, the New York Times is a real treasure trove of information.

Read this post for more details on real time campaign finance data.

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