This New Tool That Allows You To Easily Visualize 2016 Campaign Finance Data

My New York University colleague Meredith Broussardrecently debuted a new website, Campaign-finance.org, that provides tools for visualizing campaign finance data related to the 2016 U.S. election campaign. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of an email conversation we had regarding the website, her motivation for building it, what’s being done with it so far, and more general challenges facing the field of data journalism.