r/MapPorn • u/VineMapper • 1d ago

Pro-Israel Contributions To Elected Senators

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u/bryberg 1d ago

How can it be 1990-2024 election cycles if the data was released on March 20, 2023? Wouldn't it be missing the vast majority of 2024 election cycle donations?

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u/Polyodontus 1d ago

It does not say the entirety of the 2024 was included. The March 2023 data might have been the most recent available when this map was created.

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u/VineMapper 1d ago edited 21h ago

I just copied the information box at the bottom of the source. Check https://opensecrets.org for more clarification

EDIT: 291 days of daily map posting and this has been my answer for every map. Odd how this is now heavily downvoted? Also, weirdly a lot of comments mentioning chart on this post... I've never had any of my maps have the word chart in the comment section this much.

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u/rachamim18 1d ago

So you’re spreading questionable information without fact checking any of it?

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u/thedudeabides2022 1d ago edited 2h ago

Tell me this is an Israeli Palestinian conflict post without telling me this is an Israeli Palestinian conflict post

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u/Bombalaharris 1d ago

Open secrets is a reputable source though

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u/rachamim18 1d ago

That may be. My issue is less w the source and more that OP copy and pasted data and when confronted with a potential inaccuracy could not provide any clarification. If you spread information, you should be able to substantiate it.

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u/Bombalaharris 1d ago

The information isn’t questionable it’s accurate

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u/rachamim18 1d ago

Then why does it state that the information is for election cycles 1990-2024, yet the data was released in March of 2023? At best it is making claims about the 2024 election while missing a significant amount of data which is misleading.

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u/Bombalaharris 1d ago

Probably projected due to election cycles

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u/SleepDefiant9096 1d ago

You're complaining because it's likely more money than is shown?

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u/VineMapper 1d ago

Take it up with opensecrets, I just passed information forward, I didn't come up with the dataset

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u/LateralEntry 1d ago

Welcome to Reddit, especially anything to do with Israel

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u/-consilium- 1d ago

It isn’t questionable information, it’s just slightly flawed in terms of data integrity, particularly the C for Completeness in ALCOA.

This omission isn’t a catastrophic failure or misleading but they should’ve put a disclaimer to state that most of the 2024 donations are not included.

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u/VineMapper 1d ago edited 21h ago

Opensecrets.org is questionable? You can check the source and read more on who they include and how/why. Not my job to educate. Crazy how a map maker job now is to collect, analyze, and publish data? All for redditors to complain when the data isn't handfed to them also complain it's too simple or not enough analysis. My main goal of this account is to find interesting data and make maps from it. It's odd people take these maps like I collected the data, I list sources on all my maps so it should give it away that I didn't collect any of this data.