About This Project

This project's goal was to further the goals of the official Open Elections project (see Open Elections). Over the course of several months, the team contributed to these goals by building parsers and visualizations relating to the election data. The code we used is available at Code and the main visualization we created is featured on our home page (Home). Please feel free to use our code (with due credit where necessary) and contact us with any questions. We hope that our project will help you make sense of the election data, and possibly inspire you to contribute in some form!

About the Team

We are a team of Smith College Statistical & Data Science Majors that are interested in helping people access and use public election data.

Tiffany Xiao

Tiffany Xiao is a current senior double major in Computer Science and Statistical & Data Sciences Major. She created the california parser (Sonoma, Modoc and Plumas counties), all of the helper packages and part of the visualization. She is also the creator of this website.

GitHub Username: tiffanyxiao


Maggie X. Wang

Maggie is a current senior at Smith studying Government and Statistical & Data Sciences. She created the Missouri parser.

GitHub Username: maggiexwang



Karen Santamaria

Karen is a current senior double major in Computer Science and Statistical & Data Sciences. She created the Indiana and Muskegon County, MI parsers.

GitHub Username: sanmakaren



Kara Van Allen

Kara Van Allen is a current senior at Smith studying Statistical and Data Sciences and Logic. She helped parse some of the Michigan precincts and with the visualization. She is passionate about data ethics and tennis.

GitHub Username: kvanallen