The idea I was playing with was that the amount of money, while substantial, wasn’t as significant as how it was being spent. You’ll notice no amounts are listed. This is intentional. A quick glance reveals that the Republicans in this particular race are doing almost 75% of the spending. This was just a piece of potentially larger visualization of all the races, but the real-time aggregated source data is unfortunately not available in JSON or CSV at this time. (There is an API, apparently. I’m going to see if I can’t figure out a way to auto generate these simple pie charts)
DataJamming.com, inspired by the work I did with my former colleague Paul Blumenthal of the Sunlight Foundation, is a collection of graphics, thoughts, and ideas relating to the realm of publicly available data. — @kerryrm
October 29, 2010
Playing with Protovis and Sunlight Reporting Group Data