Parliamentary activity

Goal: to retrieve, clean and analyse data on Italian members of Parliament (persons, bills, debates) useful for tracing the activities of MPs and identifying topics and trends from 1946 to the present day
Use case

Analysis of Italian Parliament activities

Implemented algorithms

Data retrieval

Algorithm for data retrieval and cleaning

Thematic classification

Algorithm for automatic classification of bills according to Policy Agenda categories

Voting analysis

Dimension reduction algorithm for analysing voting behaviour

Network

Collaboration and co-signature analysis algorithm

Data

Data produced by the Chamber and Senate (Italy) (1946 – today)

  • Data in raw and tabular format: personal data, membership and activities of all elected representatives, speeches in the assembly, procedure of all bills with thematic classification