Continuing on last month’s theme on Swedish parliamentary data, we would like to introduce a new tool designed to use and explore them. The Swedish PoliGraph is unfortunately not able to tell when a politician lies, at least not yet. Rather it is a graph that connects politicians to their roles and participation in the Swedish parliament. With it, we can ask questions such as: Who was present in the parliament on a given date? Who spoke on that date? Which party …
Analyzing data from the Swedish Parliament
The Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen) continuously releases open data on its website, which includes documents approved and used during parliamentary sessions as well as what each member of parliament votes during each roll call (voting session). This data can be used to gain insight on what topics members of parliament and parties discuss and vote. In the following post, I will provide some example analyses that were performed with Python, but it could be done similarly with many other programming languages with data …