DATA 606 Data Project Proposal

Data Preparation

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library(dplyr)
library(data.table)
library(stringr)
library(ggplot2)

Research question

You should phrase your research question in a way that matches up with the scope of inference your dataset allows for.

In this project we are going to use the Federal Election Commission data set to research the campaign contributions and expenditures for election 2016 vs 2012.

We are going to analyze the data of 4 major party candidates, 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans. Would like to see how the Democrats and Republicans have spent in both the election cycle.

Further would like to do some analysis on how the Political Action Committes have spend their amounts in 2012 and 2016. Would like to investigate how the PACs have sepnd for/against a particular candidates.

We would also like to investigate how the campaigns have spent their money in different states. Would like to present a heat map with the statewise expenditure and represent in plot_ly or choropleth.

Cases

What are the cases, and how many are there?

The current data set has so many observations. After data munging the included elements will Contributions, Expenditures, PAC Expenditures.

Data collection

Describe the method of data collection.

Data is available in the public website of Federal Election Commision. Since this is open data source, we will be downloading the data from the site for our research.

Type of study

What type of study is this (observational/experiment)?

This is Observational Study.

Data Source

If you collected the data, state self-collected. If not, provide a citation/link.

The source of data for this research is Federal Election Comission website.

[FEC]http://www.fec.gov/about.shtml

Response

What is the response variable, and what type is it (numerical/categorical)?

Response variables will be numerical.

Average Contributions.

Monthly Expenditures.

State wise expenditures.

PAC Expenditures.

On further analysis of data, will come up with few more variables.

Explanatory

What is the explanatory variable, and what type is it (numerical/categorival)?

Explanatory variables will be categorical.

PAC expense were it positive or negative.

Candidates Campaign.