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Philadelphia officials on Tuesday launched an\u00a0interactive dashboard<\/a>\u00a0that displays the city\u2019s campaign finance data, allowing members of the public to view and explore campaign contributions and expenditures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dashboard, which shows data going back to 2019, was a collaboration between the city’s Board of Ethics<\/a> and its\u00a0Office of Innovation and Technology\u2019s CityGeo<\/a>\u00a0team. The dashboard is part of a broader effort to make raw data more accessible and transparent for the public to explore\u00a0during elections, like the upcoming mayoral primary on May 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philadelphia officials said<\/a> that prior to 2019, a third-party vendor managed the city’s campaign finance data, an arrangement that created technical obstacles to releasing it as open data. The IT office’s in-house software engineers expanded on the vendor\u2019s work, enabling development of a new filing system. The new filing system is designed to make it easier for campaigns to file their financial reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tables and data that are fed into the dashboard, which is updated daily, are also available as\u00a0open datasets<\/a>, along with\u00a0metadata<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0technical documentation<\/a> so that people can perform their own analyses, the city said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCreating this tool was a challenge, but the City has prioritized making campaign finance data more user-friendly,\u201d Philadelphia Chief Information Officer Mark Wheeler said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cThe Campaign Finance Dashboard further reinforces our commitment to transparency and equipping residents with as much information available when they\u2019re making important voting decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philadelphia is not the only city to launch an interactive, searchable site for campaign finance. San Francisco launched a campaign-finance portal<\/a> ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The City of Los Angeles also has a public data portal<\/a> for its campaign finance program to disclose candidate activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philadelphia’s dashboard is still in its beta phase, and the city said it will improve the tool based on the public\u2019s interests. The city is accepting feedback\u00a0via a web form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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