New theme for data.parliament
You may have noticed a new theme for data.parliament. Following internal and external user feedback on how data.parliament should be presented and the team’s experience to date we have decided to iteratively improve the user experience with the first launch today. We will be gathering feedback over the next month to improve as we go […]
Read more...Testing data.parliament
Software testing for any application is not the same as the development itself, with more datasets from parliament being migrated to data.parliament by the day it is getting challenging to make sure that it is all fine and dandy as it should be. We use various automated and manual testing techniques for end to end […]
Read more...Endpoint Availability Issue
As at 09:30 the DDP team investigating an issue witgh our API endpoints. We are looking into it. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. Update: All back and running again
Read more...“Just give us the data!”
Over the lifetime of the project, the team have, on a few occasions, been questioned as to why we are developing a platform, api, linked data capability etc, rather than just ‘giving people the data’. There are a few reasons that we have taken the approach that we have, and whilst we wouldn’t claim to […]
Read more...data.parliament for Starters
I am a business analyst in the Data.Parliament team, looking at the business processes that provide information to Data.Parliament. I went along to last week’s Accountability Hack with the rest of the team, with the aim to see what a non- techie, with no database or programming tools, could achieve using the Data.Parliament website. We […]
Read more...Swipee Swipee – Our #AccHack14 submission!
Swipee Swipee will is a tinder-style application which presents the User with the text of a succession of Early Day Motions EDMs together with the portrait of the primary sponsor. The user swipes towards green or red to indicate whether they would or wouldn’t support each EDM. After each EDM is swiped the application displays […]
Read more...data.parliament @ Accountability Hack 2014
We are pleased to announce that data.parliament will be providing data to be used during the Accountability Hack 2014 data.parliament is a platform that enables the sharing of UK Parliament’s data with consumers both within and outside of Parliament. Designed to complement existing data services it aims to be the central publishing platform and data […]
Read more...Our Second Demonstrator is now on GitHub
Have you ever wondered what your MP asked HM Treasury last Wednesday? Did you go to bed not knowing how she/he casted vote last evening? Then fear no more! All that knowledge is available via modest medium of MPExplorer brought to you by the DDP team. Head straight to github (https://github.com/UKParliData/MPExplorer) and check our source. […]
Read more...Commons Oral Questions Live on data.Parliament
This dataset contains Oral Questions tabled by Members of the House of Commons for answer during Question Time. NB, once questions have been answered, the transcript is recorded in Hansard, which is not currently available as open data but is available on the Parliamentary Website. These questions are now available from data.parliament as a dataset […]
Read more...Developers, developers, developers!
Here on the data.parliament.uk team, we are keen to see the wider software development community getting involved. Here are some of the things you can do. First, Parliament is partnering this year with the National Audit Office and the Office for National Statistics for our annual hackathon, the Accountability Hack, on the weekend of 8th […]
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