Election Hackdays

4–5 September 2015 @ Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Falkenstrasse 11, 8008 Zürich Map

Photos

Photo: Opendata.ch

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Documentation and recordings

• NZZ: Mit Daten zu mehr Transparenz und Demokratie
• Le Temps: Nous avons hacké les élections fédérales (PDF)
• Storify: Election Hackdays 2015 in tweets (PDF)
• Wiki: Election Hackdays mit Ergebnissen

Challenges

• CHParlScraping

  Aggregate data to explore questions about the Swiss parliament.

• Foreigners vote / 25prozent.ch

  Foreigners can also vote in these virtual Swiss elections.

• InterestFinder

  Candidates, deputies and lobbyists commercial interests cross-checked with official interest registry, then vizualized and analysed.

• KandiDaten

  Linking political promise to facts for crowdsourced, more direct, accountability.

• Komitees im Parlament

  A web application that adds transparency to the influence of various parties and cantons to the Committees of the Swiss Parliament.

• Political Sentiment Gauge

  Tinder for Politics: a web service and mobile app for expressing crowdsourced sentiment on political topics/issues.

• Politweets

  A political quiz which is based on Tweets from French-speaking candidates of the main political parties in Switzerland.

• StimmenZähler

  Monitoring results for each candidate as soon as the Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich has released the counting of a constituency.

• The Twitter Parliament

  We record the digital traces of Swiss parliament members in Twitter, quantifying their behavior over time.

• Voting Preferences

  Visualise relationships between income/wealth and party preference, mapping the Swiss political landscape with statistics.

• Was wäre wenn Wahlen

  An interactive tool to explore What If?-scenarios, such as what would happen if only women or young people would go to vote, based on 2015 party sympathies.

Programme

Friday, 4 September

1. 09:00
   Registration, coffee and croissants
2. 09:30
   ZürichWelcoming speech

   Alexandra KohlerNZZ
3. 09:30
   LausanneWelcoming speech

   Stéphane Benoît-GodetChefredaktor Le TempsGaël HürlimannChefredaktor Le Temps
4. 09:40
   ZürichWelcoming speech

   Hannes GassertOpendata.ch
5. 09:40
   LausanneWelcoming speech

   Mehdi AtmaniLe TempsJérôme TrébouxDatastory
6. 09:50–10:20
   ZürichPresenting datasets

   Hannes GassertOpendata.chChristian GreinerStatistik Stadt ZürichGeorg LutzPolitikwissenschaftler, Leiter der Wahlstudie Selects
7. 10:00
   LausanneTeaming up, exchanging ideas
8. 10:20
   ZürichMonitoring and analyzing political activity in social media

   David GarciaETH Zürich
9. 10:30
   ZürichTeaming up, exchanging ideas
10. 12:00
    Skype call Zurich – Lausanne

    Alexandra KohlerNZZMehdi AtmaniLe Temps
11. 13:00–14:00
    Lunch break
12. 14:00
    Hacking
13. 18:00–20:00
    LausanneApéro
14. ZürichEnd of first day at midnight

Saturday, 5 September

1. 09:00
   Registration, coffee and croissants
2. 09:30
   ZürichWelcoming words

   Alexandra KohlerNZZChristian StettlerNZZ
3. 09:30
   LausanneWelcoming words

   Mehdi AtmaniLe Temps
4. 09:45
   LausanneTeaming up (again), integrating new people
5. 10:00
   ZürichTeaming up (again), integrating new people
6. 12:00
   LausanneLunch break
7. 13:00
   ZürichLunch break
8. 15:30
   ZürichVisit of National Councillor Balthasar Glättli

   Balthasar GlättliNationalrat
9. 16:00–17:00
   Presentation of final projects
10. 17:00
    End of Election Hackdays and apéro

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