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| The Federal Elections Hackday will be held on **September 4 and 5, 2015**, at two venues in parallel: the offices of Neue Züricher Zeitung (NZZ) in **Zurich** and Le Temps in **Lausanne**. Developers, designers, hacks and hackers will be working with open data on the subject of politics and elections. Participation is free of charge. The hackdays start on Friday, 4th of September, at 9 o’clock and end with final presentations the next day at 16 o’clock. | The Federal Elections Hackday will be held on **September 4 and 5, 2015**, at two venues in parallel: the offices of Neue Züricher Zeitung (NZZ) in **Zurich** and Le Temps in **Lausanne**. Developers, designers, hacks and hackers will be working with open data on the subject of politics and elections. Participation is free of charge. The hackdays start on Friday, 4th of September, at 9 o’clock and end with final presentations the next day at 16 o’clock. | 
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| Follow our hashtag [[https://twitter.com/hashtag/makeopendata?src=hash&vertical=default&f=tweets|#makeopendata]] on Twitter and, of course, visit your trusted national media outlet for all the top stories. | ====== Results ======  | 
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|   |   * **[[project:chparlscraping|CHParlScraping]]** Aggregate data to explore questions about the Swiss parliament.  | 
|   |   * **[[project:foreigners_vote|Foreigners vote]]** / 25prozent.ch / Foreigners can also vote in these virtual Swiss elections.  | 
|   |   * **[[project:interest_finder|InterestFinder]]** Candidates, deputies and lobbyists commercial interests cross-checked with official interest registry, then vizualized and analysed.  | 
|   |   * **[[project:kandidaten|KandiDaten]]** Linking political promise to facts for crowdsourced, more direct, accountability.  | 
|   |   * **[[project:komitees|Komitees im Parlament]]** A web application that adds transparency to the influence of various parties and cantons to the Committees of the Swiss Parliament.  | 
|   |   * **[[project:polegauge|Political Sentiment Gauge]]** Tinder for Politics: a web service and mobile app for expressing crowdsourced sentiment on political topics/issues.  | 
|   |   * **[[project:politweets|Politweets]]** A political quiz which is based on Tweets from French-speaking candidates of the main political parties in Switzerland.  | 
|   |   * **[[project:stimmenzaehler|StimmenZähler]]** Monitoring results for each candidate as soon as the Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich has released the counting of a constituency.  | 
|   |   * **[[project:the_twitter_parliament|The Twitter Parliament]]** We record the digital traces of Swiss parliament members in Twitter, quantifying their behavior over time.  | 
|   |   * **[[project:voting_preferences_by_income|Voting Preferences]]** Visualise relationships between income/wealth and party preference, mapping the Swiss political landscape with statistics.  | 
|   |   * **[[project:was_waere_wenn_wahlen|Was wäre wenn Wahlen]]** An interactive tool to explore What If?-scenarios, such as what would happen if only women or young people would go to vote, based on 2015 party sympathies.  | 
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| See [[data:politics|list of open datasets]] shared with us by the journalistic community. | Follow our hashtag [[https://twitter.com/hashtag/makeopendata?src=hash&vertical=default&f=tweets|#makeopendata]] on Twitter. See [[data:politics|list of open datasets]] shared with us by the journalistic community, and all [[http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/tag:energy?do=showtag&tag=elections|elections]]-tagged projects started during the hackdays. | 
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| [[http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/tag:energy?do=showtag&tag=elections|elections]]-tagged projects will appear here during the hackdays. To publish your own project page, log in, pick a title, and go here: [[project:home]] |   * NZZ - [[http://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/mit-daten-zu-mehr-transparenz-und-demokratie-1.18609010|Mit Daten zu mehr Transparenz und Demokratie]] (in German)  | 
|   |   * Le Temps - [[http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/e11d4f56-556a-11e5-8005-b2819b48d67e/Nous_avons_hack%C3%A9_les_%C3%A9lections_f%C3%A9d%C3%A9rales._Voici_ce_que_nous_avons_trouv%C3%A9|Nous avons hacké les élections fédérales]] (in French)  | 
|   |   * Storify - [[https://storify.com/loleg/elections-hackdays-2015-makeopendata|Election Hackdays 2015 in tweets]] (by [[user:loleg]]) | 
| ==== Venue & Registration ==== | ==== Venue & Registration ==== | 
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|   * 9:30 Welcoming speech by Alexandra Kohler, NZZ |   * 9:30 Welcoming speech by Alexandra Kohler, NZZ | 
|   * 9:40 Welcoming speech by Hannes Gassert, Open Data Switzerland |   * 9:40 Welcoming speech by Hannes Gassert, Open Data Switzerland | 
|   * 9:50 Presenting datasets (Hannes Gassert, Christian Greiner, Statistik Stadt Zürich, Georg Lutz, political scientist and head of the election survey “Selects”)  |   * 9:50 Presenting datasets (Hannes Gassert, Christian Greiner, Statistik Stadt Zürich, ([[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxcK07yiRddkLU9HNTNpRmVhcndqSktuVTN3RE5fYnRxSENN/view?usp=sharing|presentation]]), Georg Lutz, political scientist and head of the election survey “Selects”([[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxcK07yiRddkMmZHX3ZHX0ltcHd4LWdrdFlFdEZRU1F0cnZF/view?usp=sharing|presentation]]))  | 
|   * 10:20 Presentation "Monitoring and analyzing political activity in social media", David Garcia, ETH Zürich |   * 10:20 Presentation "Monitoring and analyzing political activity in social media", David Garcia, ETH Zürich ([[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxcK07yiRddkaGtWQ28xR3YzUllqdzhFVkNyd3dJelctdFh3/view?usp=sharing|presentation]]) | 
|   * 10:30 Teaming up, exchanging Ideas |   * 10:30 Teaming up, exchanging Ideas | 
|   * 12:00 Lausanne - Zurich Skype Call (Alexandra Kohler, NZZ and Mehdi Atmani, Le Temps) |   * 12:00 Lausanne - Zurich Skype Call (Alexandra Kohler, NZZ and Mehdi Atmani, Le Temps) |