PoliticalMashup Ngramviewer - Tracking Who Said What and When in Parliament

PoliticalMashup Ngramviewer

The PoliticalMashup Ngramviewer is an application that allows a user to visualise the use of terms and phrases in the “Tweede Kamer” (the Dutch parliament). Inspired by the Google Books Ngramviewer, the PoliticalMashup Ngramviewer additionally allows for faceting on politicians and parties, providing a more detailed insight in the use of certain terms and phrases by politicians and parties with...

WHO FCTC as a Pioneering and Learning Instrument; Comment on “The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?”

The World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is a unique global health instrument, since it is in the health field the only instrument that is international law. After the 10 years of its existence an Independent Expert Group assessed the impact of the FCTC using all available data and visiting a number of countries interviewing different stakeholders. It i...

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

What You Say is Who You Are. How Open Government Data Facilitates Profiling Politicians

A system is proposed and implemented that creates a language model for each member of the Dutch parliament, based on the official transcripts of the meetings of the Dutch Parliament. Using expert finding techniques, the system allows users to retrieve a ranked list of politicians, based on queries like news messages. The high quality of the system is due to extensive data cleaning and transform...

Health Promotion at Local Level in Norway – Who, What, When, and How: A Response to Recent Commentaries