Graphs

[bradengroom]

@Taitrnator mentioned wanting more graphs than what open disclosure has. We should brainstorm what graphs would be most useful/informative for users.

@justinharrison suggested using chart.js which looks nice to me.

http://www.chartjs.org/

[sailorseashell]

chartjs is going to work really well for simple graphs. @Taitrnator was talking about a visualization that could be used to "follow the money" so to speak. I think something similar to the github "network" graph that shows the merging and branching of branches would be really cool. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure (not 100%) that we won't be able to accomplish this with chartjs. I think I remember something in the chartjs docs about creating custom graphs, but I could be wrong.

[bradengroom]

I think the the flow of the money graph is a good idea, but I'm not sure how doable it is.

[jharri34]

http://chinmaymk.github.io/angular-charts/

[jharri34]

what types of graphs and are needed? what data needs to be graphed? where are all are graphs placed

[Taitrnator]

sorry, late to the ball on this one
graphs:

line: total money donated per day (default last 7 days, expandable to month and 3 month quarter)
line: total money donated per day per candidate (same thing)

pie: total contributors (PACs vs individual donors)
pie: candidate expenditures vs total funds raised

bar: total # of pacs, individuals, and both donating to a candidate, and their opponents when and if possible.
bar: top 10 candidates per day by money received (expandable)(updated in between reports. so just whats raised between reports)
bar: top 10 spenders per day, both PACS and individuals (expandable) (updated between reports)

I'll be doing some more detailed wireframes for the different pages where these graphs will fit. Should have those up in the next few days. theres some rough ones right now in frontend/assets