The Sunlight Foundation has put together a great interactive map of contributions for the April 23 DC Council at-large special election.

Map by the Sunlight Foundation. Contribution data from the April 15 release

by the DC Office of Campaign Finance.

Their article by Ryan Sibley also shows many other interesting statistics, such as who got money from outside the region, the balance of corporate and individual contributions (Anita Bonds and Michael Brown got only about half individual contributions, while it’s nearly 100% for Silverman), and more.

Sibley also notes that while DC’s Office of Campaign Finance releases computer-readable data files with contribution information, some data is not in those files, like which candidate goes with a campaign committee. That’s in PDFs, but PDF data isn’t usable in mash-ups without human work.

What do you notice?

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.