/FECdata

Filtering data from FEC contributors to political candidates.

Primary LanguageJupyter Notebook

Summary

The purpose of the following code is to filter out information regarding contributions made by people to certain candidates.

Bulk Data

Download the datasets neccesary for the desired information at: https://www.fec.gov/data/browse-data/?tab=bulk-data

Download the zip file for Candidate Master, Candidate-Committee Linkage, Committee Master, and Contribution by individuals from 2001-2002, 2003-2004, ... 2019-2020. I reccommend following the file path from FECdata/Datasets/(All dataset folder from 01 to 18)

Since the files are in jupyter notebook format, look at this link to see how to run it as a py file from terminal or the command line

Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35545402/how-to-run-an-ipynb-jupyter-notebook-from-terminal