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smartvote is a so-called online voting advice application (VAA). Based on a comprehensive questionnaire on political issues it compares the political positions of voters with those of political parties and candidates. Voters receive a voting advise in form of a position-matching. smartvote exists since 2003. Developper and operater is the non profit organization Politools. During the electoral campaign of the 2011 national elections smartvote was used more than 1.2 million times.

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Topics of this book include principles, uses for transparency and civic engagement, a brief legal history, data quality, civic hacking, and paradoxes in transparency.

In my opinion, the best book on applied statistics and the task of extracting meaning from data. Also available as a free download.

Large set of data collections in addition to analysis tools.

Austria , Germany , Greece , Switzerland , United Kingdom Type of initiative Project or service Case Abstract NOMAD aims to introduce the experience of setting a political agenda in a non-moderated, crowd sourcing way, by providing decision-makers with automated solutions for content search, acquisition, analysis and visualisation, while gathering online information from social media, blogs, news feeds and the web, following upon complex sets of issues.

"The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism." Includes sections on visualization, sourcing and analysis of large data sets, and various public policy related case studies.

Access, visualize, mashup and discover actionable insights hidden in Big Data & Extreme Information.

Six Rules That Should Govern Your Big Data Existence. Here are some rules from my experience in the small data world that I've come to believe also apply to the big data world, perhaps even more so. As you go about your big data journey you'll meet with even more immense success if you consider these valuable life lessons:

A new principle for calculation; can we apply it to social simulation? The video of the robot course is quite impressive.

Last night the ARG:dundee team conducted close argument analysis on a live 45 minute broadcast of an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme, The Moral Maze, using our Argument AnalysisWall. We aimed to make debates available on the Argument Web for all the different compatible online tools to access.

About the project The USA Today/ Twitter Election meter is a graphic representation of the Twitter Political Index, a daily number produced by Twitter in partnership with Topsy labs and polling firms The Mellman Group and North Star Opinion Research.

How poor is your area - and how much worse will it get? Credit ratings company Experian, besides supplying information to credit cards companeis and banks, also provides data for the public sector - and have given us this data. It ranks every English local authority are by a set of key poverty indicators

A new app that lets voters flag polling-place irregularities will be tested at the primaries on Thursday and, if it works well, will be rolled out citywide for the November general election. The program, PollWatchUSA, enables voters to report in real time if they are experiencing undue delays, having trouble getting or casting a ballot, or being subjected to harassment or intimidation.

From David Osimo