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TDWI Upside - Where Data Means Business

Data Stories: Duplicate Bills and Buying Political Influence

These data visualizations show how special interests write legislation and which industries and companies spend the most to lobby the U.S. government.

 

Who Writes Legislation?

sample of data visualization, linked to full visualization at USA Today

This investigation from USA Today shows how many bills introduced (and often passed) by U.S. state governments are written by special interest groups.

 

Industry Lobbying Over Time

sample of data visualization, linked to full visualization at Reddit 

This video illustrates how industries spent more or less lobbying the U.S. government over time.

 

Big Companies, Big Spenders

sample of data visualization, linked to full visualization at Quiver Quantitative

The charts provided by this site also show U.S. lobbying data, first by industry, then by individual company. The second chart (pictured) makes it easy to see which companies are spending more relative to their revenues -- hover over any point for more information.

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