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Team Name


Transparency Ninjas


Team Members


6 members with unpublished profiles.

Project Description


The project is provides insights of officials attendance of meetings in different organizations. An organization can be regional council, district health board, etc.

Additionally it provides a way of visualising and analysing meeting minutes to get an overview of what has been discussed and how this changes over time.


Data Story


Meeting schedules and minutes for 2019 were scraped to produce tables of meetings and councillor attendances. The meeting text was also analysed to produce word counts for a set of meetings.

The attendance information was visualised for each organisation, and the word counts turned into word clouds and used for trend analysis of words found in the minutes over time.

Mapping layers from stats have been used to provide the initial landing page and navigation, and councillor photos are used in the attendance visualisation.


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Napier City Council Councillor Images

Description of Use We identified the source of the pictures and used this to provide avatar images for the attendance visualisation.

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Hastings District Council Councillor Photos

Description of Use We identified the source of the pictures and used this to provide avatar images for the attendance visualisation.

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Hastings District Council Meetings

Description of Use Used to get attendance for councillors, could be used for text mining too, given time

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Napier City Council Minutes

Description of Use Scraped this table to get list of meetings. Scraped text from each set of minutes to process for attendance and also what was being talked about.

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map baselayer

Description of Use Used as the basemap for the map interface.

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Stats New Zealand Geographic Data

Description of Use The API service is used to provide the Territorial Authority (and Regional Council if implemented) boundaries shown on the map.

Data Set

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