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Matt Stiles
Matt Stiles covered government and politics for the Tribune, with a focus on data journalism, from 2009 to 2011. He oversaw and developed the Tribune’s library of web applications and interactive graphics. Previously, he was a government reporter at the Houston Chronicle. While there, he won the newspaper’s Jesse Award for service journalism and beat reporting and was its reporter of the year in 2007. Before joining the Chronicle, Stiles worked as a reporter for nearly four years at The Dallas Morning News.
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On the Records: Donations App Updated
We’ve added a few new features to our campaign donations app, including the ability to filter the search results by the donation amount, year and donor type.
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On the Records: Data Decisions
Some deep-pocketed trial lawyers didn’t make the Twenty Who Gave Plenty list. Why not?
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Twenty Who Gave Plenty
Houston homebuilder Bob Perry tops the list of the biggest donors to Texas candidates in the last half of 2009. McAllen developer Alonzo Cantu and Dallas businessman Ross Perot Sr. also gave large sums.
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On the Records: Per-Capita Money Maps
The governor’s race candidates fill their campaign coffers disproportionately from some rural areas, according to a per-capita calculation. Each Dallas resident gave $1 to the race in 2009, for example, while those in Blanco donated $57.
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Mapping the Money Race
To better understand the geography of the money race, we mapped the candidates’ contributions by city, using graduated symbols to highlight their most lucrative areas. The bubbles in the maps get larger based on the percentage of a candidates’ total take.
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Who’s Funding the Governor’s Race?
To find the most-common occupations among the thousands of people who’ve donated to the major candidates in the last year, we created word clouds, a visualization technique that boosts the size of words depending on their frequency.
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Data App: Governor’s Race Cash
Search more than $35 million in campaign donations and loans collected by the top candidates in the governor’s race. You can also explore how they spent the money.
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On the Records: Ready, Set, File
Today the campaigns file reports itemizing their donations and expenditures.
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Election 2010
The most up-to-date information about the candidates running for various offices.