Follow the Money: Mapping Campaign Contributions

What:   Social Science Division Symposium
When:   Tuesday, November 14 @ 3:30PM
Where:   DeVos Communication Center room 170
Who:   All social science faculty, with other faculty and students welcome.
     
Speaker:   Neil Carlson, ######### Director of the Center for Social Research
Topic:   Following the money: mapping flows of campaign contributions.

The figure below draws on 2004 data including presidential campaigns, mapping interstate flows for 48 states. Most Republican funds propagated indirectly through Washington DC, which is not mapped in this case, though such mapping is feasible. The map was produced by Waldo Tobler's Flow Mapper tool.

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Posted by Neil Carlson on Monday, October 30, 2006 at 09:08 AM
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