Telescope
p/telescope-6
The stock ticker for the #PoliticalEconomy
Eric Nakagawa
Telescope — The stock ticker for the #PoliticalEconomy
Featured
6

How much money is being raised and spent in your state or nationwide? Telescope displays campaign finance activity in real time.

Replies
David Mermelstein
When I enter the url in Facebook, the preview image is Amazon AWS. A screenshot of the homepage would be better.
Eric Nakagawa

A timely tool for upcoming and ongoing political elections!

Pros:

This product exposed to me the sheer amount of money in political campaigns.

Cons:

Next, I'd like to see how the money is spent.

Alex Wawl
Hey guys, nice work! Where did you get all this data? If you will need any Analytics you can use our product Worfor and we will help you with hiring process totally free just ping me in chat on website;)
Justin Hernandez
@alexwawl Hi Alex. We get all of our data from the raw filings at fec.gov. It is a public resource. Thanks for the Analytics offer! 😃
Justin Hernandez
Hi guys, I'm Justin from Circa Victor. We strongly believe that it's every citizen's right to be informed about what goes on during the election process. That is why we decided that we would dedicate our lives to understanding and fixing an often overlooked and difficult topic - campaign finance. Telescope is the culmination of 3 years of sweat, tears and sql. We hope you like it! Details: 1. This is the entire 2018 political cycle as of ~ 30 minutes ago 2. We source our data from the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) raw electronic filings 3. We aggregate our totals from individual transactions and not committee self-reported totals If you are interested in seeing any specific data please fill out a request: http://request.circavictor.com/ Thanks!