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This document outlines a project to assist users in choosing political representatives by collecting and analyzing data on politicians' parliamentary performance, personal details, and the economic indicators of areas they represent. The data is analyzed using clustering algorithms to draw inferences and observe trends. Future work could expand the data collection to all Indian states and aggregate additional information on politicians' funding and projects, as well as analyze their impact on social indicators and sentiment in tweets.
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Know Your Politician
- 1. Know Your Politician Parag Jain Kaala Lakshmi Nilisha Maheshwari Mohammed Shoaib
- 2. Aim To assist users in choosing better political representatives.
- 3. Data collected 1. Parliamentary Performance a. Attendance b. Debates c. Questions d. Number of votes 2. Personal Details a. Party b. Education c. Assets
- 4. Data collected 3. Economic Indicators (Year-wise): a. Gross Domestic Product(GDP) b. Per Capita Income(PCI)
- 5. Analysis 1. Drawing inferences from data using unsupervised kNN algorithm. 2. Observing rate at which GDP and PCI changes in a politician’s tenure. 3. Examining MLA and MP trends based on Education, Criminal Cases and Total Assets.
- 6. Future Scope 1. Inclusion of MP and MLA performance of all the Indian states. 2. Aggregating information about MP and MLA fund allocation, fund utilization, projects undertaken, projects completion. 3. Impact of an MP on indicators such as A. Adult literacy rate. B. Net primary school enrolment. C. Life expectancy. D. Birth rate / Death rate. E. Sentiment Analysis on tweets.
- 7. Thank You.