InfluenceMap
- Logo
Influence Map measures and lists corporate influence on climate policy worldwide
- URL
- influencemap.org
- Keywords
- ranking, influencemap, corporate influence, greenwashing, database, climate change, climate policy
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- 2015
- Launch Date
- 2015
- Most Recent Update
- 2015
- Update Frequency
- yes
- Thematic Focus
- Environment
- Issue addressed
- Exposing corporate influence in climate policy
- Geographic Focus
- World
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Yes
- Query
- Geographic Map
- Timelines
- Lists
- yes
- Network Visualisation
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
We are a neutral and independent UK-based non-profit whose remit is to map, analyze and score the extent to which corporations are influencing climate policy and legislation worldwide.
- Approach (How?)
- Influence Map uses data from company records and third party sources to assess the company's engagement with climate issues according to a documented ranking system
- Language
- English
- Commissioner
- Tellus Mater, The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
- Publisher
- Influence Map (UK)
- Partners
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- International
- yes (338 followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- Online Rank
- Google: n.a Alexa: 2,498,504 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 35/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 53/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: Alexa:
- News Source
- High
- Offline Audience Reached
- International
- Outcome
- The September Influence Map study has been widely cited in the run-up to COP21
- Last updated
- 7/12/2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- Tool
- Database
- Frontend
- Backend
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Medium
- Team Experience
- Research
- Dedicated
- Data Science
- Dedicated
- Engineering
- Dedicated
- Design
- Dedicated
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Traditional
- Open Source
- No
- Open Data
- Budget
- N/A
- Contracting
- N/A
- Risk Planning
- N/A
- Sustainability Planning
- N/A
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: http://influencemap.org/page/Our-Methodology#Assessment-de8396f64bf67ca12de3402ebc0f86a2
- Organise / Analyse Data
- http://influencemap.org/page/Our-Methodology#Scoring-c192b0893758ccf89306127081c0fdc3
- Collect / Find Data Sources
- http://influencemap.org/page/Our-Methodology#Data-Sources
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- List
- Ethical Collection
- Guidelines
- Ethical Storage
- N/A
- Data Collection
- External Sources
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- N/A
- Data Cleaning
- Manual
- Data Analysis
- Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking
- Data Description
- Basic
- Data Licensing
- Restricted
- Ethical Publishing
- Cited Sources
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- Scrapable