Civic*Celerator Apps Walkthrough

A Walk-thru of Civic*Celerator Apps

Candidate Filing Information

Team Leader: Royce Jones

Description: Combines The Office of Elections’ candidate filing data and the Campaign Spending Commission’s campaign finance data in a web map application.

Step 1: Select the office you’d like to see

Step 2: Click on the icons for detailed candidate info

Precincts Map

Team Leader: Royce Jones

Description: Allows users to find their voting precincts and see which offices will be on their ballot. Also provides a link to the “Funding a Hawaii State Legislature Race” app.

Step 1: Enter your address

Step 2: Click on your house to see your precinct info

Hawaii Campaign Spending Data

Team Leader: Jason AxelsonTeam Members: Jill Misawa, Kyle Oba

Description: Provides voters and the general public with an intuitive view of how Hawaii lawmakers are utilizing their campaign funds.

View expenditures by different categories. This view is by office.

Hover and click on the different circles to get more detailed information about candidate expenditures.

FYI: The size of the circles are relative to the amount spent by the candidate from the cumulative total spent by category

Funding a Hawaii State Legislature Race

Team Leader: Ben Trevino Team Members: David Wang, Alex Bergo, Viil LiidDescription: Provides donation details made to each legislative race for the past 4 election periods. Visually organizes donations and fundraiser data on a timeline; groups donations by sources (immediate family, individuals, noncandidate committees, etc.)

Step 1: Hover over a district to see the House and Senate races for that area

Step 2: Click on a race and year to view fundraising details

Contributions received by the candidate

Hover over the circles to see donation details

Contribution details by contributor type

Hover over circles to see donor name and amount given

Kohoike.org: A Search Application for the Hawaii State Campaign Spending Commission

Contributions Database

Team Leader: Rich Halverson Team Members: Davis Kurihara-Nakasu, UH Shidler’s ITM 352 class and the ITMA ClubDescription: Kohoike.org is a website that allows users to search contributions within the Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission’s database

Many categories to search by

Other categories include: candidate name search, non-candidate name search and individual donor name search

Polydex HawaiiTeam Leader: Derek AhnTeam Members: Kingtak Wong, Ray Farias, Jason Piros, Tyler BorightDescription: It uses graphics to help the public “see” when local legislators are collecting the most money. Currently, the data shown is only for elected legislators for 2013-2014.

House and Senate members are listed alphabetically, navigate by using the arrow buttons

This graph shows amount of contributions the legislator received over time

Scroll down the page to see this graph which shows the amount of contributions received by contributor type (immediate family, individuals, noncandidate committees, etc.)

More information and links to all apps can be found at: www.civic.celerator.org

Sponsored by VoqalCommon Cause Hawaii and Hawaii Open Data