A more technologically in-depth look at how we can use Clojure and Neocons to integrate with Neo4j and increase transparency in UK politics.

1. Election Results
with Neo4j

2. Who am I?
• David Simons
• @SwamWithTurtles
• Software Developer
• … for a bespoke solutions provider
Softwire (hint: we’re recruiting)
• … for fun

4. ACADEMIC
WEBSITE
CONTAINING
POORLY
FORMATTED DATA
DATA
SCRAPER
(PYTHON)
NEO4J
REST ENDPOINT
(CLOJURE)

10. ring-clojure

13. (let [env (str (get (System/getenv) "GRAPHENEDB_URL") "/db/data")]
(defn connection-string [] (nr/connect! env)))
(defn run-query [query]
(connection-string)
(cy/tquery query)
)

14. (defn wardResults [year, areaId] (run-query (
"MATCH (pa:party)<-[member_of]-
(p:politician)-[r:stood_in]->
(e:election)-[held_in]->(a:area),
(e:election)-[during]->(y:year)
WHERE y.name="" year "" AND id(a)=" areaId "
RETURN id(p), pa.name AS partyName, SUM(r.votes) AS numVotes")))

15. github.com/pimterry/
national-hack-the-government-2014/

16. Thanks!
David Simons
david.simons@softwire.com
@SwamWithTurtles
github.com/SwamWithTurtles