Political Party Time
- Logo
Political Party Time tracks the political fundraising circuit one party at a time
- URL
- http://politicalpartytime.org/
- Keywords
- parties, US, Sunlight Foundation, politics, follow the money, lobbying, corruption, campaigns
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- 2008
- Launch Date
- 2008
- Most Recent Update
- 2015
- Update Frequency
- yes
- Thematic Focus
- Exposure
- Issue addressed
- Corporate and lobby presence in politics
- Geographic Focus
- US
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Yes
- Query
- Yes
- Geographic Map
- Timelines
- Lists
- Yes
- Network Visualisation
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
- Yes
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
Party Time documents the political fundraising circuit. From the early morning hours until late at night, there are opportunities for members of Congress, presidential and congressional candidates to meet with supporters behind closed doors, press them for money and party. Breakfasts, luncheons, barbecues, golfing outings, receptions, concerts, basketball, baseball, football—the social whirl is endless.
- Approach (How?)
- By gathering public and private events invitations and even crowdsourcing them though a anonymous submission form, Political Party Time tracks the agenda of politicians, from meetings to fundraisers - and the events' hosts.
- Language
- English
- Commissioner
- Sunlight Foundation
- Publisher
- Sunlight Foundation (US)
- Partners
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- International
- Yes (1552 followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- Online Rank
- Google: 5 Alexa: 1,351,211 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 51/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 67/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: Alexa:
- News Source
- High
- Offline Audience Reached
- National
- Outcome
- Political Party Time has given transparency on a much-neglected vehicle of lobbying in politics
- Last updated
- 7/12/2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- https://github.com/sunlightlabs/partytime-docs
- Tool
- Database
- Frontend
- Backend
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Medium
- Team Experience
- Research
- Some
- Data Science
- Dedicated
- Engineering
- Dedicated
- Design
- Dedicated
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Agile
- Open Source
- Yes
- Open Data
- No
- Budget
- N/A
- Contracting
- N/A
- Risk Planning
- No planning
- Sustainability Planning
- Updated
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: http://politicalpartytime.org/api/
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- List
- Ethical Collection
- Informal guidelines
- Ethical Storage
- N/A
- Data Collection
- External Sources
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- Spot Check
- Data Cleaning
- N/A
- Data Analysis
- Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking
- Data Description
- Basic
- Data Licensing
- Public
- Ethical Publishing
- Signed project
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- API