Articles tagged: campaign finance

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   How ProPublica Illinois Uses GNU Make to Load 1.4GB of Data Every Day

   By David Eads

   Posted on July 10, 2018

   The process for loading Illinois campaign finance data used to take hours. Learn how Make helped cut that down to less than 30 minutes.

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   Competition Be Damned

   By Erin Kissane

   Posted on April 27, 2017

   Last Wednesday, the Trump Inaugural Committee’s FEC filing appeared on the FEC site in its horrible hand-delivered image-PDF glory. ProPublica’s Derek Willis noted its arrival on Twitter.

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   Introducing Bedfellows

   By Nikolas Iubel

   Posted on December 18, 2014

   The financial relationship between PAC contributors and recipients can be difficult to divine from the information reported to the FEC. Bedfellows is a new Python library based on a model developed at The Upshot for understanding those relationships via several different measures.

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   How to Build an App for 14 Member Newsrooms

   By Denise Malan

   Posted on December 4, 2014

   What INN’s newsroom technology team learned about inter-organizational collaboration while building Power Players, and what they’ll do differently next time.

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   Chase Davis on fec-standardizer

   By Chase Davis and Erin Kissane

   Posted on January 28, 2013

   Chase Davis breaks down his fec-standardizer project and explains where it’s going next.

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   Free the Files API + Q&A with Al Shaw

   By Erin Kissane and Al Shaw

   Posted on October 16, 2012

   ProPublica’s interactive data-analysis project gets an API, and Al Shaw answers our development questions about the making of Free the Files.