FEC Donor Data Analysis

This repo contains the code necessary to scrape, analyze, and predict campaign donations.

Setup instructions: To run this code, you will need to

1. pull this repo to your local machine
2. create a file called ".env"
3. request APIs to access the following government websites:

• FEC API: https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/
• FBI API: https://api.data.gov/signup/
• Census API: https://api.census.gov/data/key_signup.html

4. Store the requested APIs in the .env file in the following format: CENSUS_API_KEY=your_census_api_key FBI_API_KEY=your_fbi_api_key FEC_API_KEY=your_fec_api_key

Here's a walkthrough of all the different files:

• exec.ipynb contains all the data cleaning, analysis, visualizations, and training
• get_city_data.py contains functions to pull city-level data using the census and fbi apis
• get_fec_data.py contains functions to pull FEC data