[ddj] Politician data tools/sites

Thu Aug 13 07:40:08 UTC 2015

Hi Matthew,

Do you're adding all the resources listed in a single
spreadsheet/collection? It would be helpful!

thanks :)

2015-08-11 12:26 GMT+02:00 Matthew Linares <
matthew.linares at opendemocracy.net>:

> Thanks to everyone who has replied. There's so much excellent stuff going
> on, it's great to see it all.
>
> I wonder if anyone has written up a review of the field and how
> developments are being harmonised. I'm glad to see projects like poplus
> aiming to reduce redundancy. I'd love to work out what the best and most
> flexible tools are.
>
> Please do send over anything else relevant, including any contacts of
> developers working of with experience in this field.
>
>
> Matthew Linares
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> On 10 August 2015 at 06:45, Andrea Nelson Mauro <
> andrea.nelson.mauro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
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