[EU-lobby-data] Fwd: URGENT - Update on Lobby facts and urgent question regarding data

[Timo Lange]

Hey Friedrich,

schön von dir zu hören!

Vielleicht können wir heute oder morgen im Laufe des Tages auch nochmal
telefonieren?

Viele Grüße

Timo


Am 15.01.2013 12:31, schrieb Friedrich Lindenberg:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm terribly sorry for falling off the radar at such a bad time, I was in
> the US on a week-long all-day workshop. I'm back now and will get back to
> Curve on their questions ASAP (& keep you in CC).
> 
> - Friedrich
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Timo Lange <timo.lange at lobbycontrol.de>wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Mathilde now asks for feedback concerning the visuals (which I still
>> haven't been able to see yet). What I understood from you is that there
>> is not enough there yet to give a clear feedback. Can you comment anyway
>> on it? What do we need to give a definitive feedback?
>>
>> I guess Friedrich is still unavailable?
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Timo
>>
>>
>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Betreff: URGENT - Update on Lobby facts and urgent question regarding data
>> Datum: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:58:45 +0100
>> Von: Mathilde <mathilde at tacticaltech.org>
>> An: Timo Lange <timo.lange at lobbycontrol.de>,  Friedrich Lindenberg
>> <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>
>>
>> Hello both of you,
>>
>> for the guys at Curve agency, they need answers to the questions below
>> as soon as possible.
>>
>> Friedrich - any news on how they can retrieve the dtabase?
>>
>> Have you been able to look at the visuals? Can I give them sign off so
>> that they can continue?
>>
>> Timo, it would be great if you could let me know when would be a good
>> moment to call?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mathilde
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:        Update on Lobby facts and urgent question regarding data
>> Date:   Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:09:40 +0100
>> From:   Mathilde <mathilde at tacticaltech.org>
>> To:     Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>, Timo Lange
>> <timo.lange at lobbycontrol.de>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello both of you!
>> Happy new year!! I hope you had a great Christmas period and start to
>> the year.
>>
>> So I have a couple of questions
>>
>> First, and most urgent - the guys at Curve agency have had problems with
>> the data. They have spent 3 days on sorting it, duplicates etc.
>> It would seem that it was assumed the API export would be the full
>> database, but in fact does not correspond to the full data. The easiest
>> at this stage (and sorry, I assumed had been the case already) is if
>> they can have access to the database itself... Friedrich, is this
>> possible? and if not, how come...?
>>
>> This is a few words they sent to describe their problem:
>>
>> We’ve tried to pull content from the API as best we can and we have
>> succeeded in getting the correct amount of content from the API in all
>> instances - so for example we succeeded in pulling out 11,233 people
>> from the system, but when importing data this data set seems to miss
>> lots of people out. To combat this, we also tried to pull a list of
>> ‘heads’ and ‘legal’ straight from the representatives, but again there
>> seems to be data missing. We’ve concluded that without direct database
>> access we’re not confident in the data that is being returned by the API
>> and how complete this data is. In summary the API is returning
>> incomplete data.
>>
>> Another issue we’re facing (which you’re obviously aware of is duplicate
>> content). There are several rows of duplicate data in the system, but
>> there are also many rows of data where the ID’s are the same (we’re
>> using the IDs as unique identifiers in our system), but other data might
>> be slightly different. It’s difficult to know which data we should trust
>> in this instances as obviously we’re less knowledgeable about this data
>> than yourselves.
>>
>> This is quite a problem, because the agreement with them, was not to
>> spend time on data cleaning and sorting etc... and unfortunately they
>> have had to do this... and this means spend time that has not been
>> accounted for (yet..) They know we are very tight on budget.. but they
>> are asking that additional budget can be considered. Timo, I don't know
>> how much is there and possible.. but it is true that this has caused
>> them a lot of extra work.. to be discussed...
>>
>> They have given me access to design start they have which I give you
>> here to login
>> They are otherwise happy with how it is advancing and the progress.
>>
>>
>> Please click on the following link to activate your account:
>>
>> http://curveagency.hotgloo.com/activate/d5d3d3760eae9869a1bff48bffb399f701b360b1
>>
>> Use the username and password provided below to sign in:
>> Username:mathilde at tacticaltech.org
>> Password: fdc386b9
>>
>>
>> Let me know on thoughts about this data question.. sorry to bother you
>> Friedrich, but maybe again it is better you talk to them directly so
>> that every body is clear on what is the situation...
>>
>>
>> Take care!
>>
>> Mathilde
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Timo Lange
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>>
>>
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