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HowTheyVote.eu

**All data readily available for download starting now** 🎉

We finally have brought back our option to download the complete HowTheyVote.eu dataset!

You can find the complete dataset here (updated weekly):

github.com/HowTheyVote/data

@HowTheyVoteEU congrats! always nice to see more voting analysis. two questions:

1. why did you not reuse parltrack published data instead of writing your own scraper?

2. how does this compare to other similar solutions, like mepwatch.eu?

in any case, i welcome competition and innovation in this space, keeps the complacency away. so good luck and kudos!

@parltrack Thanks! When we started working on HowTheyVote in late 2019, we weren’t aware of Parltrack. Since then, we’ve been following your project with great interest.

We see HowTheyVote as a complementary project rather than as competition to other projects in this space. 1/2

@parltrack HowTheyVote has a narrow scope, aiming to provide an intuitive, searchable user interface for vote results. Because of this, we don’t collect some of the data Parltrack does (like committees) and instead try to integrate additional sources (such as press releases) to provide more context about votes. Unlike other projects, we don’t provide advanced tools for analysis.