Data from data.cityofnewyork.us provides records of expenditures made by election campaigns. The dataset includes columns such as COMMITTEE, CANDLAST, AMNT, PURPOSE, and STATE, suggesting detailed tracking of financial transactions. It was last updated on 2025-12-19 15:35:06.
Use Cases
- Analyzing spending patterns by political committees using COMMITTEE, AMNT, and DATE columns (from 30 available columns).
- Mapping campaign expenditure locations using CITY, STATE, and ZIP columns (from 30 available columns).
- Investigating relationships between donors and candidates using ORG_IND, CANDLAST, and CANDID columns (from 30 available columns).
- Auditing campaign filings for compliance using FILING, SCHEDULE, and EXPLAIN columns (from 30 available columns).
Strengths
- Published on the Socrata platform by data.cityofnewyork.us.
- Offers data in multiple formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.
- Includes 30 distinct columns covering committee, candidate, transaction, and location details.
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Row count, file size, and license information are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic or temporal bias inherent to its source on Socrata.
Provenance
- Source
- data.cityofnewyork.us
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-12-19 15:35:06.