house_expenditures

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Standardize Payee Names (particularly for individuals)

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A key goal for us is to identify as best we can congressional staffers over time. Since they often move from office to office, we need a standardized version of...

dwillis

Clean the `office` variable

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The values in the data appear to be manually entered, and are therefore not standardized. This means that unique entities for the `office` variable are spelled differently and should be...

supermdat

Clean the `purpose` variable

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The values in the data appear to be manually entered, and are therefore not standardized. This means that unique entities for the `purpose` variable are spelled differently and should be...

supermdat

Standardize office, payee, and recipient fields

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The office, payee, and recipient fields aren't standardized so unique entities that are spelled differently need to be collapsed into one value. You can read more about that problem under...

restrellado

Now that the code from `load.R`, `clean.R`, `do.R`, and `func.R` are consolidated in `explore_house_exp.Rmd`, we need to remove these unused scripts and add `exp_summary.R` to the other functions in the...

restrellado