All Times EDT
Thursday, October 1
Thu, Oct 1, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Virtual
Virtual
Poster Session 1
Fec16: An R Package Containing Relational Data from the US 2016 Elections (309585)
Benjamin S. Baumer, Smith CollegeRana Gahwagy, Smith College
Irene Ryan, Smith College
*Marium A. Tapal, Smith College
Keywords: Relational data, R data package, Teaching R, Data Analysis
This R package provides a set of cleaned relational data from the 2015-2016 United States election by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). These data include authoritative information about candidates, committees, contributions, expenditures, and election results. Most datasets are included in full, while a small sample of the others are available with the option of retrieving the entire datasets through built-in functions. This package is useful as there exists a demand for such data in teaching. fec16 is a one-stop-shop for interesting and clean data suitable for introductory statistics and data science students.