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 […]
Read more...Bills Data – What would you like to see ?
The team is investigating options for Parliamentary Bills data onto Data.Parliament. Something that could help us in our approach is knowing what sort of queries people want to do, or what sort of services might be created. Also understanding whether people are interested from a legal or political viewpoint. Also focussing what basic data would […]
Read more...Issue with our Commons Divisions Data
Earlier today we were working on a new demonstrator application, allowing visualisation of Commons votes from Data.Parliament. The source code is on GitHub here: https://github.com/UKParliData/MPExplorer but we haven’t released the application to live yet. We discovered a small inconsistency between two fields in the source databases, and our application was using the wrong field. As […]
Read more...Our first demo app is now available on GitHub
One of the things that we’re doing with data.parliament.uk is creating some small demonstrator applications to show you how you can make use of our data feeds. These applications are open source, MIT licensed, and available on GitHub. The first such application that we have developed is one that monitors Research Briefings and announces them […]
Read more...Announcing Commons Divisions
We have just launched commons divisions. The division data which can be searched and consumed through our API is now available on http://lda.data.parliament.uk/. The dataset atom feed is available here
Read more...Lords Divisions live on data.parliament!
We have just released the Lords Divisions Data onto data.parliament. Every division can now be downloaded in an XML format from the core engine by using the atom feeds , or alternatively use our APIs listed here to search for them. For more information on what a division is check this out: http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/business/divisions/ Currently division […]
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