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- On the first day, found the code for such a web page<\/a>; I have reverse engineered the data model and database, and have made a landing page for my implementations<\/a> of this tool; I have inserted my data file into Neil\u2019s code and it can be viewed here for Q4 23<\/a> and also for all 2023<\/a>, although I need to do some work with the javascript; this page’s presentation is not very satisfactory. I made a fork of Neil’s code<\/a>. NB I should have created a data file for H1 24 but didn’t.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- On my third visit, I met the author of donation whistle, who posted his code on github<\/a>. When I first met Will, he had the site up and running at
https:\/\/donationwhistle.willthong.com\/<\/s>, but when I looked at it yesterday 9 Aug 2025<\/em>, it seems to have been taken down, but he now has a blog page<\/a>. I really like this; it has a real time feed from the EC and answers some of the questions one wants to ask really well. I have starred it in github and raised one issue already.<\/li>\n\n\n\n- I was later pointed at who funds them<\/a> at mysociety.org<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- In addition, Campaign Lab has incubated Who funds the Conservative Party?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
I have worked with my 2023 extract to prototype some of the queries I plan to run and report on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
April 2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
I think there are three dimensions we want to measure, and my experience is that this may be best done by quarter. As it the moment, I am restricting myself to chart formats supported by excel. I am also restricting myself to the three big parties. These restrictions are because of the difficulty in handling the large and small scales required. The charts are,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- The amount of money by top three parties, by quarter<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Neil’s buckets by quarter, as the year doesn’t scale within the infographic<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- a size of donation frequency distribution by party<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- funding by source, both volume and as a proportion of total; it might be good if we could build dynamic charts to turn public funding on\/off. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
The screen might look like this, or the front page could have buttons to second pages to deal with Money, Neil’s buckets, frequency within Party and by source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAt the moment, I plan to make the charts, and use the code to present them. NB <\/strong>(I didn’t).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best I did was the last image on https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/political-donations-2023\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
WordPress Charting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
I found these pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- https:\/\/crocoblock.com\/blog\/best-wordpress-chart-plugins\/<\/a> an antholoogy review<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- And two plugins https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wpdatatables\/<\/a> & https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/visualizer\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
The query<\/a> I used to find the tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My data sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Mainly the EC<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Their search portal<\/a>, with filters set<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Their candidate spending page for 2019<\/a>, does this do all, or only those that spend more than an amount<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Their candidate spending page for 2019<\/a>, does this do all, or only those that spend more than an amount<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
- And two plugins https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wpdatatables\/<\/a> & https:\/\/en-gb.wordpress.org\/plugins\/visualizer\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
- https:\/\/crocoblock.com\/blog\/best-wordpress-chart-plugins\/<\/a> an antholoogy review<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- On my third visit, I met the author of donation whistle, who posted his code on github<\/a>. When I first met Will, he had the site up and running at