Follow The Data – FEC Campaign Data Challenge by Andreas Kollegger.
Take the challenge and you may win a pass to Graph Connect, November 5 & 6 in San Francisco. (Closes 11 October 2012.)
In politics, people are often advised to “follow the money” to understand the forces influencing decisions. As engineers, we know we can do that and more by following the data.
Inspired by some innovative work by Dave Fauth, a Washington DC data analyst, we arranged a workshop to use FEC Campaign data that had been imported into Neo4j.
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With the data imported, and a basic understanding of the domain model, we then challenged people to write Cypher queries to answer the following questions:
- All presidential candidates for 2012
- Most mythical presidential candidate
- Top 10 Presidential candidates according to number of campaign committees
- Find President Barack Obama
- Lookup Obama by his candidate ID
- Find Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney
- Lookup Romney by his candidate ID
- Find the shortest path of funding between Obama and Romney
- List the 10 top individual contributions to Obama
- List the 10 top individual contributions to Romney
Pointers to data, hints await at Andreas’ post.