Lobbyradar
Lobbyradar.de is temporarily offline but the lobbyradar data is hosted on mirror site https://lobbyradar.org. Documentation about the project is not available on https://lobbyradar.org.
- Logo
Lobby Radar uncovers the lobbying groups and private interests in German politics
- URL
- https://www.lobbyradar.org/
- Keywords
- journalism, Heute, Germany, lobbying, network viz, politics, institutional powers,
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- 2015
- Launch Date
- 2015
- Most Recent Update
- 2015
- Update Frequency
- N/A
- Thematic Focus
- Lobbying
- Issue addressed
- Traceability
- Geographic Focus
- Germany
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Yes
- Query
- Geographic Map
- Timelines
- Lists
- Network Visualisation
- Yes
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
Lobbyradar uncovers relationships between lobbies and german policymakers.
- Approach (How?)
- Lobbyradar mapped the network of connections between industrial lobbies and German politicians. It also supplies a plugin that alerts the user whenever a page contains any name or information about an actor or entity in their database so that users (and voters) can be more knowledgeabe about a politician or a company.
- Language
- German
- Commissioner
- Self-commissionned
- Publisher
- ZDF heute (Germany)
- Partners
- ZDF heute.de, Medieninnovationszentrum Babelsberg MIZ and OpenDataCity
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- National
- Yes (62 followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- 703K
- Online Rank
- Google: N/A Alexa: 3,398,691 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 13 /100 Marketing Grader Rank: 30/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: 8 Alexa: 2933
- News Source
- Some
- Offline Audience Reached
- National
- Outcome
- N/A
- Last updated
- 19/10/2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Innovative caching and interface for large graph visualisation
- Well documented API and data format
- Code Repository
- https://github.com/lobbyradar/lobbyradar
- https://github.com/lobbyradar/scraper-lobbyliste
- Tool
- Scraper Lobbyliste
- Database
- MongoDB
- Frontend
- Backend
- Node.js
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- https://github.com/lobbyradar/lobbyradar/blob/release/doc/types.md
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Large
- 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
- Yes
- Open Data
- No
- Budget
- N/A
- Contracting
- N/A
- Risk Planning
- No planning
- Sustainability Planning
- No planning
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: https://www.lobbyradar.de/oft-gestellte-fragen#collapseSix
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- Relational
- Ethical Collection
- No guidelines
- Ethical Storage
- N/A
- Data Collection
- External Sources
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- Corroborated
- Data Cleaning
- N/A
- Data Analysis
- Graph
- Data Description
- N/A
- Data Licensing
- Restricted
- Ethical Publishing
- Cited Sources
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- Scrapable