About the project

Last update: 13th of September, 2021

Contact:
- Dr. Paul C. Bauer, mail@paulcbauer.eu, University Mannheim, MZES, 68131 Mannheim, Germany
Reference:
- www.digitalpolitics.info (2021): A real-time observatory. Version 1 (Alpha Version).
Credits
- Paul C. Bauer (Mannheim Centre for European Research): Programming of backend/frontend, data managment, collection and visualization, site testing
- Alejandro Ecker (University of Heidelberg): Account data collection, site testing
- Michael Imre (Mannheim Centre for European Research): Account data collection, site testing
- Camille Landesvatter (Mannheim Centre for European Research): Data visualization, site testing
- Sonja Malich (University of Munich): Data visualization, site testing
- The selfless programmers of the open-source software on which we rely here!
- This material is developed/based upon work generously supported by Google Cloud Research Credits.
Other similar initiatives
- Digital Democracy Lab Zurich.
- Politwi roject and the corresponding twitter bot [inactive] [@Rill2014-tq]
- The Political Dashboard: Paper and Website
- There are also various private companies working on similar stuff.
Next steps:
- Increase the sample of politicians both across space, time and institutions
- Improve workflow, pipeline speed & efficiency
- Work on data details
- Add network graphs
- Add more sophisticated analyses of content: Sentiment analysis, topic classification, hashtag tracking over time etc.