https://civicmediaclass.mit.edu/2015/03/17/monitoring-municipal-elections/ Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:25:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 https://civicmediaclass.mit.edu/2015/03/17/monitoring-municipal-elections/#comment-72 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:25:04 +0000 http://civic-media-class.wordpress.brownbag.me/?p=421#comment-72 You will want to study existing election monitoring and political profile sites and ask your questions of them: How did they attract participation? What were their most useful features according to news stories about the tools? What were their sources of data? Were they in a country or region that had a good open data available they could pull down or was it a lot of scraping they did on the quiet? Perhaps they ran surveys of politicians or citizens to get further data? What content presentation and data visualization strategies did they employ? What seems to work and what seems to make the information less accessible? Check out whether you might want to plug into or at least steal the principles at the heart of http://www.openingparliament.org/casestudies.

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