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Parliamentarian Tag Clouds
All political affairs submitted by parliamentarians are being stored and published on the webservers at parlament.ch, e.g. this include
- parliamentary initiatives, motions and postulates
 - questions and interpellations
 - reports of the committees
 - and so on….
 
We scrape this textual content off the web and create tag clouds for each politician.
Other findings
Terms that the parliament was most occupied with in 2011
- 3999 Doppelbesteuerung
 - 2437 Schutz
 - 2175 Kosten
 - 2141 Energien
 - 2103 Einführung
 - 1705 Migration
 - 1561 Präsidenten
 - 1316 Hilfe
 - 1307 Menschen
 - 1286 Finanzierung
 - 1276 Krankenversicherung
 - 1242 Italien
 - 1241 Verbot
 - 1232 Integration
 - 1220 Landwirtschaft
 - 1196 Strategie
 - 1192 Kindern
 - 1192 Stärkung
 - 1170 Entwicklung
 - 1165 Revision
 - 1151 Zukunft
 - 1137 Welche
 - 1135 Franken
 - 1131 Gefahr
 - 1088 Nordafrika
 - 1086 Ausserordentliche
 - 1065 Bundesverwaltung
 - 1057 Bevölkerung
 - 1047 Griechenland
 - 1014 Verhandlungen
 
Data
- ws.parlament.ch political affairs submissions
 - www.parlament.ch politician and faction data
 
Team
Technology Stack
Scraping
- Scala (Data from parliament website)
 - Python + Scrapy
 
Frontend
- JavaScript
 - Python + Django
 - RDBMS (SQLite, PostgreSQL)
 
