newsdev/congress-candidates-2018

Name: congress-candidates-2018

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Created: 2017-12-07 18:37:11.0

Updated: 2017-12-08 16:29:21.0

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Language: Python

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congress-candidates-2018

Setup

install -r requirements.txt

If running campfin/get_candidates.py with the --totals flag I recommend getting 4 API keys from https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/ to avoid throttling. After retrieving them, in ~/.bashrc:

rt FEC_KEY_0=<key>
rt FEC_KEY_1=<key>
rt FEC_KEY_2=<key>
rt FEC_KEY_3=<key>

Syntax and num keys matters. See update_key() function in campfin/get_candidates.py

Fetch data from FEC api

t csv of candidates who filed for 2018
on campfin/get_candidates.py --year 2018

t csv of candidates with fund totals for 2018
on campfin/get_candidates.py --year 2018 --totals

t csv of districts with FEC ids and candidate count for 2018
on campfin/get_candidates.py --year 2018 --districts

Get Rutgers data

on campfin/rutgers.py //Gets Rutgers candidates into a csv. 
                         //Should look over to look at unicode errors or if name/party are conjoined from typos.

Compare FEC data with Rutgers data (list of females registered to run for 2018)

on campfin/get_candidates.py --year 2018 --totals
on campfin/rutgers.py
on compare/compare_rutgers.py --rutgers data/2018_rutgers.csv --fec 2018_totals.csv

This adds a rutgers_sex label to FEC totals in fec_gender.csv and a candidate_id label to Rutgers candidates in data/rutgers_fec_ids.csv.