CubeSlice Demo Displaying Federal Election Commission Data

Back in 2006 we prepared a demo of our product, CubeSlice, which displayed Federal Election Commission information on political candidates in the 2006 Senate and House races:

• How much money did the candidates get?
• Did the money come from in-state or out-of-state contributors?
• How much cash did each candidate have at a particular time?
• How much did the candidates spend?

This Federal Election Commission data is publicly available. You can look at it directly on their web site at www.fec.gov. What we have done with CubeSlice is to assemble this information in a way that makes it much easier for you to analyze and understand.

An article in the then current issue of Barron’s magazine argued that the best predictor of elections is the amount of money raised by the candidates.

Whether it's for analyzing election data, or any other kind of data you might have, we think you will be interested in looking at our demo. CubeSlice provides the easiest way of sharing interactive spreadsheets with other people.

To use our CubeSlice demo you must have Microsoft Excel (XP,2003 or 2007) installed on your computer. If you are using Excel 2007, you must also have the Office 2003 Web Components for Microsoft Office 2007, which is available as a free download from Microsoft. Excel is a very popular business program, though many people do not have it installed on their home computers. Ask around and see if you can find someone who has it.

Download the National CubeSlice FEC Demo Now - CampaignFinance.exe

Download the National Demo with an .xyz Extension (rename to .exe after download)

Select Individual State Files for Downloading

Additional Information:

Please see the Federal Election Commission’s web site (www.fec.gov) for more information about the data we are using. The data in the CubeSlice demo is taken from the detailed and summary data files that are available for download.

There are some restrictions on the use of individual names of contributors contained in this data. Please see the Federal Election Commission’s web site for details.
Some of the money for a candidate may appear more than once in the data, as it is transferred from one committee to another. Please take this into account as you are looking at the data.