Intro

This project is a vizualization of Hawaii Campaign Spending data for Candidates. It was initially created for Civic*Celerator 2013.

View Online

Please note that this visualization is based on the official Hawaii Campaign Spending data which you can find on data.hawaii.gov: https://data.hawaii.gov/Community/Expenditures-Made-By-Hawaii-State-and-County-Candi/3maa-4fgr

But the data is actually pulled from a filtered/rolled-up view: https://data.hawaii.gov/Community/Expenditures-Made-By-Hawaii-State-and-County-Candi/gvuk-nbsz/data

To better understand the data you should take a look at the Campaign Finance Data Primer

Development/Contributing

Installation/Running

bundle install
./run-jekyll.sh
./jekyll-watch.sh

Visit http://localhost:4000 in a web browser

Updating Data

In this project the data is updated manually rather than automatically fetched (this may change in the future).

./update_data.sh

Then commit the changes to the data (if any) and then deploy.

Deploying

Run deploys script

./deploy.sh

Then commit the changes. The site is served from the master branch of the common cause repo: https://github.com/CommonCauseHawaii/campaign_spending

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, simply fork the repo, push your commits, and submit your pull request.