By looking at public data on state and county candidate contributions, expenditures, and disclosures published on data.hawaii.gov we can take a broad look at the amount of money influencing politics in Hawai‘i. Rather than focusing on individual candidates as has be done in other places, I wanted to quickly compare different aspects of the data that can otherwise remain hidden.
Click anywhere on the graphs or bar charts below to quickly filter results.
If you know of other data that should be added to this please let me know.
Data was prepared using Open Refine.
This tool was built with Crossfilter and dc.js.
Hawaii Campaign Spending from Civic Celerator: viz.hawaiicampaignspending.com
Funding a Hawaii State Legislature: commoncausehawaii.github.io/leg_campaigns
Civil Beat's Financial Disclosures database: civilbeat.com/disclosures
From the National Institute on Money in State Politics: followthemoney.org