Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

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CMPSCI 591Y • Spring 2005 • Tuesday & Thursday 1:00-2:15 • Lederle A339

The following is a list of useful websites for finding election data. Feel free to email Matt (rattigan@cs.umass.edu) with any new sites that you've come across and would like to share.

 


http://electoral-vote.com/ Andrew Tanenbaum's amazing election site, mentioned in lecture

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~govdocs/election.htm Polls, results, and financing

http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Elections/ Yahoo directory

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~sara/html/mapping/election/election04/election.html Wonderful maps of the election, including county-level data

http://ustogether.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm County-by-county information on voting technology and voting in FL

http://uscountvotes.org/ Lots of data with pointers to others

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/ Voting technology by state and county

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65800,00.html Web Won't Let Government Hide

http://www.ailab.si/aleks/politics/index.htm Data Mining in Politics

http://www.campaignmoney.com/ Campaign Finance in American Politics

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0405.confessore.html Bush's Secret Stash (on campaign financing)

http://www.corporations.org/campaign$$/ Campaign Contribution and Voting Records (links)

http://www.fec.gov/

http://www.commoncause.org/laundromat/

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

http://www.govtrack.us/

http://www.vote-smart.org/

http://www.house.gov/Welcome.shtml

http://www.senate.gov/

http://www.campaignmoney.com/

http://www.fecinfo.com/

http://www.opensecrets.org/

http://www.fec.gov/finance/finmenu.htm

ttp://www.campaignfinance.org/

http://www.cfinst.org/

http://www.campaignfinancesite.org/

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=527_committee

http://www.public-i.org/527/

http://www.nndb.com/ An "intelligence aggregator" that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy

http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-SERIES/00177.xml United States General Election Exit Poll Data

http://www.census.gov U.S. census data

http://mediastudy.com/election.html Links to various studies, papers

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0411/S00227.htm The NEP's raw, uncorrected, night-of-election exit poll data (allegedly)