2005-2006 Federal Election Commission Filings

• fec.rmd contains my analysis of 3 datasets from the 2005-06 Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings: committees, individual contributions, and candidates. It produces the HTML file fec.html.

  • In part 1, I conduct a preliminary exploratory analysis of the candidates dataset.
  • In part 2, I create a table of the 5 parties with the largest cash holdings.
  • In part 3, I create a table of the unique number of committee IDs and candidate IDs in each party.
  • In part 4, I create a table of the financial contributions of Harvard professors to political parties.

• fec_graphic.Rmd contains code for a visualization of Harvard professors' financial contributions to political parties (see part 4 above). It produces the HTML file fec_graphic.html.

• I used data from the FEC.