Every Politician

	Every Politician aims to provide data about every politician in the world
Home page	http://everypolitician.org/
Approach	Every Politician has a series of scrapers that gather data to help create a consistent database of representatives all over the world
Phase	Released
Tags	database, world, Mysociety, MPs. representatives, politics, and representatives
Practices	Organise

Launch Date	2015
Most Recent Update	2015
Update Frequency	true
Thematic Focus	Politics
Issue addressed	Tracing politicians
Geographic Focus	World

Experience

How does a user interact with and navigate the project?

Query	true
Geographic Map	true
Lists	true
Raw Data	true

Description

Summary of the project and its approach

	it’s a simple but ambitious project to collect and share that data, in a consistent, open format that anyone can use.
Approach (How?)	Every Politician has a series of scrapers that gather data to help create a consistent database of representatives all over the world
Language	English
Commissioner	MySociety
Publisher	Poplus

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : International Twitter : ( followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : 10.5K Online Rank : Google: n.a Alexa: 5408839 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 26/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 31/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Offline Audience Reached : International Outcome : Last updated : 22/10/2015 Attempts against the project : /

Technology

What tools and code were used to create the project?

Tech Best Practices: : : : Code Repository : https://github.com/everypolitician : Tool : : : : Database : : Frontend : : : : : Backend : : : : : Data Format : : Data Standard : Technical Documentation URL : : Technical Architecture Documentation : Schema Documentation : Design Documentation : API Documentation :

Data Sources

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Team

Team size and expertise

Team Size : Medium Team Experience : Research : Dedicated Data Science : Dedicated Engineering : Dedicated Design : Dedicated

Project Methodology

What strategies were in place for managing the project?

Project Methodology : Traditional Open Source : true Open Data : true Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : Sustainability Planning :

Documented Practices

Documentation about project practices

Practices

How projects handle different aspects of data management

Data Modeling : List Ethical Collection : Ethical Storage : Data Collection : Trained Collectors Data Collection : Data Verification : Data Cleaning : Expert Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : Machine Readable Data Licensing : Open Ethical Publishing : Signed project Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : Dump