- http://mepvote.eu/ was created by Miquel Catala, one of the hosts of this session. It's a website that displays all the votes of EU parliamentary members. You can check out the votes of individuals, groups (per political partie, per country), search for a certain topic or use other filter tools.
This websites uses two datasets: the attendence regsiter file and the votes. This solves a particular problem: sometimes, MEP's are present, but forget to sign the attendence form. When that happens, the vote dataset registers incorrectly. The commitee votes are unfortunately not available in a format that can be reused.
Katja Bego, who works for Nesta, a social governmental innovation organisation (sorry, didn't catch the name) aims to use data to give information behind a vote. Which MEPs really care about the issue? She measures this by looking at, for instance, twitter data. They scraped all the MEP tweets and created keywords that were linked to certain votes. They also measure sentiments from tweets, so you can find out how a person feels about a certain issue: e.g. 'negative towards net neutrality'. They are also working on using data from transcripts of meetings to determine sentiments.
About 80% of MEP votes are not counted on an individual level.
Miqual also created http://meptwitter.eu.
Also check out:
TheyWorkForYou.com (UK)
PublicWhip (UK)
OpenKnesset (Israel)
TheyVoteForYou (Australia)