On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:06:51 +1100
Olivier Mehani
Ahoy,
On Thu 12 Jan 2017 at 06:29:26 +0000, Riley Baird wrote:
On the topic of open government, I just thought that I'd like to share a website that I've made. It's open source (AGPL-3.0+), and it tracks how every MP votes on every division in the Victorian Parliament. You can access it at http://vicvote.review
Awesome!
There is a similar one in France [0]. It also tracks how often the MP-equivalent were present/on holiday/AWOL, how often they voted, how often they proposed something, or asked an official question.
I was hoping something similar would show up for Australia. Where do you source the data from? And how difficult do you think it would be to port to other states or Federal level?
The data is from the "Votes & Proceedings" (Assembly) [0] and "Minutes of Proceedings" (Council) [1]. I don't think that it would be difficult to port to other States or the Federal level (although for the Federal level, there's already "They Vote For You" [2]). You'd need to find out how to extract the data from their records and then the website would work fine. Someone asked me something similar on reddit, and I wrote an overview of how the data extraction process works.[3] [0] http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/assembly/votes-aamp-proceeding-minutes [1] http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/council/minutes-of-proceedings [2] https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/ [3] https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/5n9161/victorian_parliament_trac...