Decisions made - OpenMaine/campaign-finance GitHub Wiki

Data captured

We have decided to NOT enter street addresses into the data typed in by volunteers, not even as a 'stepping stone'.

The consensus in the group is that we don't want to make this information easily available for folks with nefarious intentions.

Also, as OpenMaine, with an intention to keep the whole process OPEN, it would be awkward to have intermediate forms of the data not available for public scrutiny. We have the PDFs from the Press Herald; we have the images from Clare's cellphone; we have Kate Snyder's spreadsheet. We will work from these to make an already de-identified data set.

We will make these spreadsheets (donors listed only by Portland precincts, city, state) available as well as the visualizations we create from them.

Technology

We will embed Tableau visualizations into our web pages.