A walkthrough of the applications from the Civic*Celerator in partnership with Common Cause Hawaii and Hawaii Open Data to develop applications based on Hawaii campaign spending data.

1. A Walk-thru of Civic*Celerator Apps

2. Candidate Filing Information
Team Leader: Royce Jones
Description: Combines The Office of Elections’ candidate
filing data and the Campaign Spending Commission’s
campaign finance data in a web map application.

3. Step 1:
Select the
office you’
d like to
see
Step 2: Click
on the icons
for detailed
candidate info

4. Precincts Map
Team Leader: Royce Jones
Description: Allows users to find their voting precincts and
see which offices will be on their ballot. Also provides a link
to the “Funding a Hawaii State Legislature Race” app.

5. Step 1:
Enter your address
Step 2:
Click on your house to
see your precinct info

6. Hawaii Campaign Spending Data
Team Leader: Jason Axelson
Team Members: Jill Misawa, Kyle Oba
Description: Provides voters and the general public with
an intuitive view of how Hawaii lawmakers are utilizing their
campaign funds.

7. View expenditures by
different categories.
This view is by office.

8. Hover and click
on the different
circles to get
more detailed
information
about candidate
expenditures.
FYI: The size of
the circles are
relative to the
amount spent by
the candidate
from the
cumulative total
spent by category

9. Funding a Hawaii State Legislature
Race
Team Leader: Ben Trevino
Team Members: David Wang, Alex Bergo, Viil Liid
Description: Provides donation details made to each
legislative race for the past 4 election periods. Visually
organizes donations and fundraiser data on a timeline;
groups donations by sources (immediate family, individuals,
noncandidate committees, etc.)

10. Step 1:
Hover over a district to see
the House and Senate races
for that area
Step 2:
Click on a
race and year
to view
fundraising
details

11. Contributions received
by the candidate
Hover over
the circles
to see
donation
details

12. Contribution details
by contributor type
Hover over
circles to see
donor name
and amount given

13. Kohoike.org: A Search Application for the Hawaii
State Campaign Spending Commission
Contributions Database
Team Leader: Rich Halverson
Team Members: Davis Kurihara-Nakasu, UH Shidler’s ITM 352 class
and the ITMA Club
Description: Kohoike.org is a website that allows users to search
contributions within the Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission’s
database

14. Many categories
to search by
Other categories
include:
candidate name
search, non-
candidate name
search and
individual donor
name search

15. Polydex Hawaii
Team Leader: Derek Ahn
Team Members: Kingtak Wong, Ray Farias, Jason Piros,
Tyler Boright
Description: It uses graphics to help the public “see”
when local legislators are collecting the most money.
Currently, the data shown is only for elected legislators for
2013-2014.

16. House and Senate
members are listed
alphabetically, navigate by
using the arrow buttons
This graph shows
amount of contributions
the legislator received
over time

17. Scroll down the
page to see this
graph which
shows the
amount of
contributions
received by
contributor type
(immediate
family,
individuals,
noncandidate
committees,
etc.)

18. More information and links to all apps can be
found at: www.civic.celerator.org
Sponsored by Voqal
Common Cause Hawaii and Hawaii Open Data