Who's have already done the treemap. The thing is that there's a big difference between having a meeting with a junior minister in the Scottish Office with 8 other NGOs and having a one-on-one with the PM.
As well as knowing who gets the most lobby impact - basically their degree in a graph nodeweighted by ministry and edgeweighted by the inverse of the number of participants in a meeting - it would also be nice to see which lobbies are noisy but ineffectual, and which ministers are low centrality but high traffic and therefore acting as gatekeepers. Could also be good to know which ministers you want to lobby to meet other ministers directly. And changes in time. NetworkX is a pleasure to work with. I think it will need interactivity, though, and the thought of grinding graphs with 1,000s of edges and 100s of nodes in the browser is a bit sick. Afaik, the API is coming. I did a few departments on scraperwiki if you want a quick data fix. "'Dragon' Dave McKee" <[email protected]> wrote: >> But I was trying to measure the *lobbies* not the departments. I have some >> other ideas for layout strategies, notably using a version of CAIDA's >> strategy >> for visualising the Internet routing table. > >I'd be tempted to treat 'government' as a single box; few people will >care if it's DWP, DECC or any other acronym getting lobbied; so I >imagine a treemap with red bars of 'Power companies', 'Transport >Operators', etc; then drilling down to individual companies within >that dataset. Beyond that level you could further split by either >department or reason for meeting, potentially. > >Also, I can't see where I can download the raw data from... I'd expect >'database' in "This Who's Lobbying database available under the Open >Database License (ODbL)." to be a link. > >Dave. > >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list [email protected] >Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
