Geoff Morris, M.S. Candidate, Symbolic Systems Program, "Pockets: Visualizing Campaign Finance"
ABSTRACT:
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) maintains a public database of
all transactions between political action committees (PACs) and
political candidates. While the interface provided by the FEC allows
one to obtain specific information about candidates and committees, it
is difficult to obtain an overview or broader view of the campaign
finance landscape. The goal of Pockets is to provide a graphical
interface for exploring this data. In this lecture I will examine
some important landmarks in information visualization, discuss how
they have informed my project, and explain the steps taken in my
project's development thus far as well as plans for future
development.