[ddj] data-driven-journalism Digest, Vol 53, Issue 2

[Peter Borbely]

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>    1. Politician data tools/sites (Matthew Linares)
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> Hello all,
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> I am looking for a few things which I think people here may know about. Any
> leads will be most appreciated!
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> 1) Good examples of platforms collating data on politicians (or
> structurally similar subjects), particularly where those platforms enable
> search and complex querying of the data. theyworkforyou
> <http://www.theyworkforyou.com>, popit <http://popit.poplus.org/> (not
> actively developed) are examples I know of, but I'm looking for best in
> class projects from across the world, both active and otherwise, open and
> closed source.
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> 2) Anyone know why popit is no longer actively developed?
>
> 3) Developers and others involved in the making, maintenance or analysis of
> this kind of software and datasets.
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> 4) Aside from the datasets in use at theyworkforyou
> <http://parser.theyworkforyou.com/>, useful sources of data (structured and
> otherwise) on UK politicians. This may be significant data relating to them
> explicitly as politicians, or referencing them as individuals in other
> fields (e.g. opencorporates <https://opencorporates.com/> which might be
> cross-queried with members data
> <https://github.com/mysociety/parlparse/tree/master/members>). Alternately,
> non-UK specific ideas about how to query data of this sort across domains.
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> 5) Any good resources which detail developments and resources in this
> field.
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> Thank you for your thoughts!
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> Matthew Linares
> Technical & Publications Coordinator
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