docs.everypolitician.org
EveryPolitician
http://docs.everypolitician.org/scrapers.html
What’s in the data? Where does it come from? Getting most recent data. How we import data. We need to get data into EveryPolitician, and scrapers are a big part of that process. We’re busy writing more, but we’d be very happy if you wrote one for us. Maybe you’ll write the scraper that pulls in the data for your own country. Or maybe you’ll just pick one that we need. See under: “Scraper needed”) simply because you’re a kind-hearted, helpful developer. Either way: we love you! But it’s also helpful for a...
docs.everypolitician.org
EveryPolitician
http://docs.everypolitician.org/data_structure.html
What’s in the data? Where does it come from? Getting most recent data. How we import data. EveryPolitician’s data is not complete. It doesn’t yet cover every nation in the world. We’re working on that (and you can help too! In creating EveryPolitician, we’ve made some decisions about what it will and what it won’t try to provide. This page explains how and why we made those decisions. EveryPolitician’s goal is to provide basic data on every politician in every national-level legislature in the world, in a.
poplus.org
100 Parliaments as Open Data ready for you to use
http://poplus.org/posts/100-parliaments-as-open-data-ready-for-you-to-use
100 Parliaments as Open Data ready for you to use. 31 Jul 2015 by Myf Nixon. 100 Parliaments as Open Data ready for you to use. If you need data on the people who make up your parliament, another country’s parliament, or indeed all parliaments, you may be in luck. Project, aims to collect, store and share information about every parliament in the world, past and present and it already contains 100 of them. And especially researchers who want to do analysis across multiple countries. This standardisation ...
mysociety.org
For Developers / Technical / mySociety
https://www.mysociety.org/category/developers
For Developers / Technical. Introducing EveryPolitician’s bot. For Developers / Technical. Comments Off on Introducing EveryPolitician’s bot. Project aims to make data available on. Every politician in the world. Today the EveryPolitician team would like to introduce you to its busiest member, who is blogging at EveryPolitician bot. A bot is an automated agent a robot, no less, albeit one crafted entirely in software. First, some background on why we need our little bot. Or die, or change their names or ...
docs.everypolitician.org
EveryPolitician
http://docs.everypolitician.org/data_summary.html
What’s in the data? Where does it come from? Getting most recent data. How we import data. What’s in EveryPolitician’s data? Short answer: names. And dates of birth, twitter handles, political group memberships, email addresses, honorific titles, image URLs, and all sorts of useful things all provided we can find them. How complete this data is depends on the sources that people around the world have found for us for each country. CSV or JSON), and how the data structure. Folder, or inside the index file,.
longair.net
Mark's Blog | (occasional miscellanea)
http://longair.net/blog
Migrating YourNextRepresentative from PopIt to django-popolo. This post was originally intended for the mySociety blog. But because of its length and technical content people suggested to me it might be more suitable for my own blog. This about the development of the YourNextRepresentative project. And in particular why and how we migrated its storage system from using the PopIt web service. To instead use PostgreSQL. Edmund von der Burg. Which is a very carefully thought-out specification for storing op...
poplus.org
Components
http://poplus.org/components
Poplus Components are independent pieces of software developed to solve a range of common problems encountered when building civic and democratic websites. These common problems include tasks like:. Making and maintaining up-to-date data on politicians. Working out what district, city or region a particular problem or politician relates to. This is a very high-level description of what a Poplus Component is. For a much more detailed description, see our definition of a Poplus Component page. Also, you mi...
github.com
tmtmtmtm (Tony Bowden) · GitHub
https://github.com/tmtmtmtm
X74;ony@mysociety.org. Feb 24, 2009. EveryPolitician's core data store. Crowdsourcing platform for gathering gender information about politicians to improve the data in EveryPolitician. Data about every national legislature in the world, freely available for you to use. Ruby library for interacting with EveryPolitician data for a legislature. 22,631 contributions in the last year. Summary of pull requests, issues opened, and commits. Learn how we count contributions. Aug 14 Aug 20. Aug 14 Aug 20. Upgrade...
poplus.org
Reflections on a Re:publica session about collaboration in Global Transparency and Accountability work
http://poplus.org/posts/civic-tech-ngo-donor-collaboration
Reflections on a Re:publica session about collaboration in Global Transparency and Accountability work. 26 Jun 2015 by Kersti Wissenbach. Civic Tech and NGOs. wait, and donors. Reflections on a Re:publica session about collaboration in global Transparency and Accountability work. Therefore, Tech4TA, on a global scale, should very much be about active collaboration between traditional NGOs and the digital activists, in order to:. Safeguard TA practitioners (learning from digital activists in how to ensure...
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