Calder Burgam, researcher at the National Institute on Money in State Politics, walks through how to navigate the different kinds of political funding data accessible on FollowTheMoney.org.
If you’re interested in a specific feature, fast forward to the following timestamps:
- Introduction to the Ask Anything search engine (0:22)
- Searching single contributors (0:40)
- Searching specific candidates (0:48)
- Searching candidates by state (1:02)
- Using the Data Navigator (2:08)
- Sorting results by contributor sector (2:38)
- Sorting results by candidate office type (3:03)
- How to get detailed information for each search result row (3:54)
- Introduction to My Legislature (4:20)
- Viewing contributions by committee (5:16)
- Using the Legislation viewer function to see giving ties (5:56)
- Introduction to independent and lobbying spending data (6:44)
- Viewing lobbyist spending data (7:44)
- Using the entity info page (8:37)