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EU Political Barometer

EU Political Barometer is an interactive web application to visualize the political state of European countries using data from the profiles of political parties in social networks. We collect information about more than 200 political parties, with the intention to determinate ideology and polarization metrics.

We provide information about the 27 European Countries and the United Kingdom.

Project stats

Countries

28

Parties

0

Posts

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Political scales, Ideology and Polarization

Parties are classified in different political scales, being the left-right scale the most relevant in this site. This data is retrieved from the ParlGov database. Ideology and polarization of countries across the European Union and the United Kingdom are computed with prediction models.

In the following link, we explain that scale, and what is the ideology and polarization with an interactive example.

Party classification, ideology and polarization

Explore dashboards

The information is divided in several dashboards to better visualize the data of this project, such as:

Ideology & Polarization

Explore the ideology and polarization of EU Countries

Countries menu

Explore the EU countries (and the UK)

Parties menu

Explore parties used in this project

Link to dashboard menu

How this project works

This is a simplified version of this project, we first extract information from Facebook Political Parties Pages, and then analyze them, in order to get functional models to analyse different aspects of the political situation of European Countries.

  • Data collection

    Extract data from Facebook

  • Data processing

    We run models and process all collected data

  • Display results

    Results are displayed in this website

  • Data collection

    Extract data from Facebook

  • Data processing

    We run models and process all collected data

  • Display results

    Results are displayed in this website

Charts in this website include zoom, use the scroll wheel to make usage of this feature. If you are on mobile there is pinch-to-zoom. This feature may prevent you to scroll-down in some pages, therefore try to click outside of a chart.

Research: Our research outputs regarding this project can be found here.

Explore Trends

We extracted the text of every publication, to study the most used terms by every political party. With that information we built a dashboard, that measures the relevance of more than 8,000 terms in the context of the European Union.

Every country and party page have their own Word Cloud of their most used terms

This dashboard provides possibilities to easily compare different time periods, trends and countries/parties.

Newspapers

The embedded URL(s) of the post are collected, then we resolve the links (because some parties use shortened URLs), and classify the websites of newspapers sites, with at least 30 posts. For every News media we get the ideology perception of that media by the number of uses of the parties.