On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:06:51 +1100 Olivier Mehani <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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_tracker_see_how_your_mps/dcbal4t/ _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
