Lobbyradar
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| Lobby Radar uncovers the lobbying groups and private interests in German politics | ||
| Home page | https://www.lobbyradar.org/ | |
| Approach | Lobbyradar mapped the network of connections between industrial lobbies and German politicians. It also supplies a plugin that alerts the user whenever a page contains any name or information about an actor or entity in their database so that users (and voters) can be more knowledgeabe about a politician or a company. | |
| Phase | Released | |
| Tags | journalism, Heute, Germany, lobbying, network viz, politics, and institutional powers | |
| Practices | Collect | |
| Partners | ZDF heute.de and Medieninnovationszentrum Babelsberg MIZ and OpenDataCity | |
| Project Start Date | 2015 |
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| Launch Date | 2015 |
| Most Recent Update | 2015 |
| Thematic Focus | Lobbying |
| Issue addressed | Traceability |
| Geographic Focus | Germany |
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
| Narrative | true |
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| Network Visualisation | true |
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
| Lobbyradar uncovers relationships between lobbies and german policymakers. | |
| Approach (How?) | Lobbyradar mapped the network of connections between industrial lobbies and German politicians. It also supplies a plugin that alerts the user whenever a page contains any name or information about an actor or entity in their database so that users (and voters) can be more knowledgeabe about a politician or a company. |
| Language | German |
| Commissioner | Self-commissionned |
| Publisher | ZDF heute |
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project.
Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : National Twitter : (62 followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : 703K Online Rank : Google: Alexa: 3398691 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 13 /100 Marketing Grader Rank: 30/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Some Offline Audience Reached : National Outcome : Last updated : 19/10/2015 Attempts against the project : /Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
Tech Best Practices: : Innovative caching and interface for large graph visualisation : Well documented API and data format : Code Repository : https://github.com/lobbyradar/lobbyradar : https://github.com/lobbyradar/scraper-lobbyliste Tool : Scraper Lobbyliste : : : Database : MongoDB : Frontend : : : : : Backend : Node.js : : : : Data Format : : Data Standard : Technical Documentation URL : : Technical Architecture Documentation : Schema Documentation : https://github.com/lobbyradar/lobbyradar/blob/release/doc/types.md Design Documentation : API Documentation :Data Sources
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Team size and expertise
Team Size : Large Team Experience : Research : Dedicated Data Science : Dedicated Engineering : Dedicated Design : DedicatedProject Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
Project Methodology : Traditional Open Source : true Open Data : false Budget : Contracting : Risk Planning : No planning Sustainability Planning : No planningDocumented Practices
Documentation about project practices
CollectPractices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
Data Modeling : Relational Ethical Collection : No guidelines Ethical Storage : Data Collection : External Sources Data Collection : Data Verification : Corroborated Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Graph Data Description : Data Licensing : Restricted Ethical Publishing : Cited Sources Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : Scrapable