Lobby Facts

	Lobby Facts is a repository of information regarding the lobbies present in the Brussels parliament
Home page	http://lobbyfacts.eu/
Approach	Lobby facts uses the data of the EU transparency register, categorizes the data and makes it available
Phase	Released
Tags	lobbies, Europe, lobbying spenders, lobby tracking, power relationships, political structure, stories, statistics, who's who, and database
Practices	Collect

Update Frequency	true
Thematic Focus	Lobbying
Issue addressed	Traceability
Geographic Focus	Europe

Experience

How does a user interact with and navigate the project?

Narrative	true
Lists	true

Description

Summary of the project and its approach

	Lobby Facts increases awareness about lobbying influence in the EU, exposes privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups and campaigns for transparency around lobbying.
Approach (How?)	Lobby facts uses the data of the EU transparency register, categorizes the data and makes it available
Language	English
Commissioner	Corporate Europe Observatory, Lobby Control and formerly Friends of the Earth

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : International Twitter : ( followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: Alexa: 8582841 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 41 /100 Marketing Grader Rank: 41/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Medium Offline Audience Reached : International Outcome : Last updated : 17/10/2015 Attempts against the project : /

Technology

What tools and code were used to create the project?

Tech Best Practices: : : : Code Repository : https://github.com/stef/lobbyfacts : 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 : None Data Science : Some Engineering : Outsourced Design : Outsourced

Project Methodology

What strategies were in place for managing the project?

Project Methodology : Open Source : true Open Data : true Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : No planning Sustainability Planning :

Documented Practices

Documentation about project practices

Practices

How projects handle different aspects of data management

Data Modeling : Documents Ethical Collection : No guidelines Ethical Storage : Data Collection : External Sources Data Collection : Data Verification : false Data Cleaning : false Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : false Data Licensing : Open Ethical Publishing : Cited Sources Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : Scrapable