I’ll end my exploration of the clusters in this data set by looking at the 14th largest cluster by contribution value. This cluster is not comprised of movie stars or investment bankers, realtors or health professionals: it is comprised of homemakers in Michigan.
Somehow, the Democrats have managed to get 264 homemakers from a small area [...]
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One of the most interesting clusters is the Hospitals/Nursing Home cluster in Texas because it represents the first foray into the realm of the Average Joe. It comes in at number 10 on our list and is comprised of staff from the Doctors Hospital at Renaissance.
In this hospital located on the Mexican border of Texas, [...]
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For the second largest cluster, we need to travel from LA all the way to Connecticut. This cluster contains hedge fund staff and investment bankers from Connecticut, in that little nook north of New York. These individuals each contributed over USD $30K to the Democrats.
If I were the Democrats, I’d be asking “Why these companies?”; “Why this [...]
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Carrying on from the previous post, the top 20 contribution clusters provide some interesting insights into potential tactics for the Democrats and Republicans to pursue to increase their contributions. The top 20 are as follows:
There’s quite a breadth of industries represented in the top 20 ranging from TV/Movies/Music in California, to Securities and Investment in [...]
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Over the past 10 years, I’ve spent much of my time pulling actionable insights out of data. Perhaps I shouldn’t admit this out loud, but I enjoy it.
I’ve recently been experimenting with an approach I’ve developed for identifying clusters of similar transactions within a data set. Seeing every group of clustered transactions within a data [...]
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