EU-elections-2014

Unnecessary exploration of the 2014 European election in the UK.

Disclaimer

This content is not published by BBC News and must not be considered as BBC words.

To-do

• Cross-domain issues
  • Fix at deployment
• Pre-calculate the results
  • Partly done at deployment
• Candidates occurrences graph to set to April 1st - election day range
• Design UI for semantic data section
• Feature: filter media coverage breakdown by publisher
• Feature: graph mentions by party over time
  • Line chart (each line has the party's colour)
• Feature: Add Abstract two-liners for candidates

Ideas

• Dashboard to follow the elections
• Highlight the different media coverages the parties and candidates receive
• Find patterns in the data
• Provide background info after the election
  • Enter your postcode and find out more about your elected MEP

External data sources

• YouGov national poll 18.05.2014
• YouGov national poll 19.05.2014
• Base files for list of candidates by xavriley (github)
• Number of candidates by party and mentions by party (Google spreadsheet)
• Elections results - BBC Vote2014