2 Data

The goal of our data collection is to collect all information generated by political actors active in the Swiss national political system. This includes all data available from the government itself, either made available on their webpage or on their social media accounts. Furthermore, we collect available data generated by the members of the Swiss parliament and the different parties which are holding seats in the parliament chambers. Furthermore, we try to include all candidates running for a seat before national elections into our data collection processes to collect the whole electoral campaigns as well. Additionally, we also collect data from newspapers as well as other organizations actively engaged in swiss politics.

To collect all this data, we use automated web scrapers to get all official publications (e.g. press releases), as well as automated pipelines collecting data from social media via official APIs and newspaper articles from the swissdox data base.