MAT5335 Project 3

1. Reading material to discuss Wednesday 1 February
a. How to Display Data Badly
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due Friday 3 February

2. We will consider baby names from 1880 to 2015.  The files can be found on ssa.gov or in the virtual folder.  Sketch a plot of year vs occurrences satisfying the following properties.
* different colors and symbols for M and F
* tick mark at every ten years
* background color
* label axes and provide title
* bottom and left axes only
* occurrences > 1000 (top 100 occurrences for each year)
* distinct lines connecting maximum occurrences, for M and F

as.integer or format should avoid scientific notation.

3. We are going to investigate contributions by individuals to political action committees.  
http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/ftpdet.shtml
Scroll down to 2015-2016 Data.  INDIV Data Dictionary gives a description of each column.

The following questions should be done for each of the two time periods.  Please state the time periods.

3a. What is the average donation per time period?  

3b. What are the top ten donation amounts? By who?  To who?  Use the 9 character code to search the FEC website (or the committee master file) to determine the donation recipient.

3c. Determine if anyone from EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY made any donations.  If so, how many and what was each of their amounts?  What was the average?

3d. Determine if anyone from CHARLESTON IL made any donations.  How many and what was the total amount?

3e. Determine the total amount of contributions, grouped according to each zip code: 62033, 62428, 60181, 62510, 62447, 61920.  Note: some zip codes may be listed as nine digit zip codes.  The function strtrim will be helpful to trim them to five digit zip codes.

3f. Find the top ten cities in Illinois that donated the most amount of money.

3g. Find the top ten professions that made the largest number of donations.  Find the top ten professions that donated the most amount of money.

3h. Let’s look at the following two campaign contributions.  

Hillary Clinton's committee number is C00575795 and committee name is HILLARY FOR AMERICA
Donald Trump's committee number is C00580100 and committee name is DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT, INC.

Find the top five largest donations for each presidential candidate.  Using paste, or df[-col], print the name of the donor, city, state, date, and amount.  


read.delim, tapply and grep should be helpful

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