An exploratory data analysis of financial contributions to political parties; completed as a project for a Harvard class on data science in R
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
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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
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I used data from the FEC.