Phil Wolff
Date Bar
**Today's day, countdown to/from the election date, days to fresh data.** Provide context and urgency. Before election day...  Election day...  After the election but before final filings... ...
"_8 more days_ to fresh contribution and spending data" where we now have the yellow caution banner
Problem: We've already seen our maps and charts screencapped. http://www.oakmayor2014.com/voter-information/campaign-finances/#toggle-id-1 While we update them, their screencaps are snapshot history. This lets different sites tell different stories using our data. Action:...
1. The $/contributor number was interesting early on. 2. With some campaigns raising from relatively few contributors, the mean-big-contribution figures are a bit misleading. For instance, they don't exclude self-funding....
The columns show name, date, money. Let's default to date and let the user sort the list by last name, date, or dollar amount.
_probably should be multiple stories_ In addition to adding spending info to each candidate's page, we could add a page that breaks out spending overall on this campaign. /spending -...
there's a css container problem, resulting in everything except the candidate table to render at half-width. https://www.flickr.com/photos/philwolff/15117198531/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/philwolff/15120190755/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/philwolff/15119820302/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/philwolff/14933500069/    
The chart will be screencapped for news and blog stories. So caption as... `"Cumulative Contributions by Candidate chart cc-by Open Oakland 2014. Data as of [LAST UPDATE DATE]."`
No link to each Earl's page. http://www.opendisclosure.io/search?name=earl