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European Parliament www. europarl. europa. eu EU Datathon 2020 Challenge 3: A new push for European democracy Webinar on Friday, 20 th March 2020 1

Agenda European Parliament • How does the European Parliament look like in numbers? European Parliament Datasets • What is the nature of our data? Where to find it? Which formats do we support? Examples of external applications using EP Data • What can be done with the available parliamentary data? 2

The European Parliament in Numbers Organized in 7 political groups The 705 Members of the European Parliament are directly-elected from voters in the 27 EU Member States every 5 years and represent around 450 million citizens The EP is the legislative branch of the EU and one of its 7 institutions Led by 1 President and 14 Vice-Presidents Activity in EP plenary sessions in the 8 th parliamentary term (July 2014 - June 2019) 279 1411 30 992 Plenary sitting days Hours of sitting Votes in plenary 19 824 Amendments adopted 26 619 3 Amendments rejected For further information click here to visit the official website of the European Parliament

European Parliament Datasets In the EU Open Data Portal there are 63 EP datasets in total, inclusive some highlevel datasets with many resources (e. g. electoral data). Besides in the EU Open Data Portal, further data (near 5 million documents in all EU languages) could be found in the European Parliament's public register. How many? Which formats? Where to find? In which language? Data could be found in machine-readable formats such as XLS or non-proprietary and platform independent formats such as XML (e. g. list of MEPs, plenary minutes). Surveys and reports are in PDF and DOCX format. Besides text and reference data, there also some build-in possibilities for visualization such as info-graphics and interactive maps (e. g. national election results), as well as multimedia files (e. g. debates). Most of the data is in English, but some documents (e. g. , proceedings) are available in all EU languages. 4

European Parliament Datasets: What is the nature of the data? MEPs Information about each of the 705 Members of the European Parliament elected in 2019: the country they represent, the political group and the national political party; incoming and outgoing MEPs, MEPs' assistants, and a full list of MEPs in each parliamentary term since 1979 Available as interactive map on the website of the European Parliament or to download on EU Open Data Portal in XML, PDF and HTML. 5

European Parliament Datasets: What is the nature of the data? Electoral data European Parliament elections results as well as national elections results in the EU Member states; breakdown by national parties, political groups and gender balance, as well as all European elections since 1979 Available in various formats to download (JSON, XML, CSV, JPG, PNG) on the website of the European Parliament or in XML, PDF and RSS FEED on the EU Open Data Portal. 6

European Parliament Datasets: What is the nature of the data? Eurobarometer & Parlameter Surveys Field research on Europeans’ attitudes, detailed post-electoral analyses, citizens’ feeling of identity, European vs. national citizenship, political priorities and values Monitoring changes in European public opinion since 1973 by focusing on specific topics (e. g. gender equality) or particular socio-demographic groups (e. g. the European youth). Available on the website of the European Parliament or in the EU Open Data Portal as XLS, PDF, DOC, PPT, etc. 7

European Parliament Datasets: What is the nature of the data? Finalized minutes by year Available to download in XML, DOC and PDF on the website of the European Parliament or the EU Open Data Portal. List of adopted texts by year Available to download in PDF on the website of the European Parliament or the EU Open Data Portal. Committee´s activity reports and publications Available to download in PDF on the website of the European Parliament or the EU Open Data Portal. List of Questions Available to download in PDF on the website of the European Parliament or the EU Open Data Portal. List of Declarations Available to download in PDF on the website of the European Parliament or the EU Open Data Portal. 8

Examples of external applications using EP Data 1. Vote. Watch provides an overview of policy positions, voting records and coalition formation trends of MEPs. 2. Parltrack combines information on dossiers, representatives, vote results and committee agendas into a unique database and allows the tracking of dossiers using email and RSS. 9

3. European Parliament Datasets: Previous Datathons EU Datathon 2017: Analysing votes with MEPWatch. eu 10

Thank you! & Good luck to all participants! her information please visit the European Parliament website at: https: //www. europarl. europa. eu/p 11