[ddj] Politician data tools/sites

Mon Aug 10 05:45:17 UTC 2015

Dear all,

for the Italian side we have some cases of interest:

- Openpolis <http://openpolis.it> first: they work since 2007, absolutely
pioneers not only in Italy and EU (I think). What they do:

   - tracking the *Parliament debate* before and after the vote of every
   single law/framework with OpenParlamento <http://www.openparlamento.it/>
   (even though data for Italian parliament are widely in open and linked
   formats thanks to dati.camera.it and dati.senato.it)
   - tracking *politician programmes*: by doing quizzes, you might
   understand which party you could vote (here's an example per European
   elections in 2014 <http://europee2014.voisietequi.it/>
   - tracking every decision/change of politicians who jump to new
parties (check
   this post with stats
   <http://blog.openpolis.it/2015/08/03/cambi-di-gruppo-il-valzer-infinito-quota-290/>)
   and their activities (who do more, who do less), check the live toplist
   <http://indice.openpolis.it/>

- Other team of interest is this one behind Pagella Politica
<https://pagellapolitica.it/>: they do an everyday-factchecking of
politician statements.

- You may take a look also to both Termometro Politico
<http://www.termometropolitico.it/> and YouTrend <http://www.youtrend.it/>:
they do similar, essentially to watch polls and results of elections.

Best,
Andrea

2015-08-10 5:41 GMT+02:00 Fernando Cabigao <fernando.cabigao at gmail.com>:

> Hi Matthew,
>
> You may want to check http://moneypolitics.pcij.org. It focuses on
> Philippine politicians' wealth, election campaign finances, the use of
> public funds, and socio-economic data.
>
> Best,
>
> Fernando Cabigao Jr.
> Researcher-Writer
> *Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism*
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Matthew Linares <
> matthew.linares at opendemocracy.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am looking for a few things which I think people here may know about.
>> Any leads will be most appreciated!
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 5) Any good resources which detail developments and resources in this
>> field.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your thoughts!
>>
>>
>> Matthew Linares
>> Technical & Publications Coordinator
>> openDemocracy.net <https://www.openDemocracy.net>
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