La Fabrique de La loi

Much of the work for La Fabrique de la Loi was completed on a voluntary basis

La Fabrique de La loi tracks the evolution of the lawmaking and votation process in the French parliament

URL: http://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/
Keywords: politics, France, list, complex data, lawmaking, institutions, visualization, parliament, vote, amendments, debates
Project Current Phase: Released
Project Start Date: 2011
Launch Date: 2014
Most Recent Update: January 3, 2016
Update Frequency: occasionally
Thematic Focus: Politics
Issue addressed: Tracking the legislative footprint
Geographic Focus: France

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Description

Summary of the project and its approach

Documents and maps policy making though representatives debates and voting processes

Approach (How?): La Fabrique de La Loi visualizes with timelines and a track changes interface the votes of the MPs and the back and forths between the French Parliament and different political commissions, this project focuses on tracking the influence of different political interests in the lawmaking process.
Language: French
Commissioner: Région Île-de-France
Publisher: Regards Citoyens (France)
Partners: CEE Sciences Po, médialab Sciences Po, Regards Citoyens, Density Design

Indicators of reach and impact of the project

Target Audience
Online Audience Reached: Large Network
Twitter: No (N/A followers)
Publisher's Twitter Followers: 13019
Online Rank: Google: 5 Alexa: 13,629,453 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 36/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 51/100 ()
Online Rank (Publisher): Google: Alexa:
News Source: Some
Offline Audience Reached: National
Outcome: N/A
Last updated: Oct 8, 2015
Attempts against the project: N/A /

What tools and code were used to create the project?

Tech Best Practices:: Version Controlled Data; Comprehensive Walk Through of Visualisations
Code Repository: https://github.com/regardscitoyens/the-law-factory-parser; https://github.com/regardscitoyens/the-law-factory
Tool
Database: Git
Frontend: d3.js; Angular.js; Diff Match and Patch libraries; Javascript
Backend: BeautifulSoup; Requests; Python; Perl
Data Format: JSON; CSV
Data Standard: JSON
Technical Documentation URL: https://github.com/regardscitoyens/the-law-factory-parser/blob/master/README.md
Technical Architecture Documentation: http://blog.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/2012/01/le-volet-technique-du-projet-%C2%AB-les-deputes-font-t-ils-la-loi-%C2%BB/
Schema Documentation
Design Documentation: http://blog.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/visualizing-the-law-factory-data/design-proposals/
API Documentation: https://www.lafabriquedelaloi.fr/api/

Data Sources: http://data.senat.fr/dosleg/; http://cpc.regardscitoyens.org/trac/wiki/API; http://www.senat.fr/

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