Parlorama is based on objective data made public by the European Assemblies. Plenaries minutes, reports, speeches, written and oral questions etc (more than 35,000 documents pr the Regional Council of Île-de-France and much more for the European Parliament).

Thanks to state-of-art technology software developed by the IT team, the data is gathered in real time, regrouped and analysed. It enables us to report many results such as deputies individual performance, political groups performance (Age, Gender, Political group, Occupation, preferred topics etc.); in a word, as many criteria as allowed by the data structure.

The calculation of the performance marks is made thanks to a specific method specially created by our teams; the technical details being public and available on demand. It consists in a combination of two valuation methods.

Firstly with the criteria valuation sub-method. These criteria are out of different natures and are basically merged thanks to weighting coefficients. This sub-method applied to an individual only relies on its own performance (absolute aspect).

This process is then subjected to the marking and valuation sub-method. The criteria can be merged into groups, which may be marked thanks to an independent valuation on each concerned criteria.

This sub-method takes into account the overall performance of the entire studied population (relative aspect). This process is more competitive examination-like than an “exam valuation” model. It may be issued from both individuals and groups. This process implies an algorithm classifying the individuals by performance, scrolling down from highest to lowest.

In addition to the performance analysis, we have developed a softare enabling us to understand the Assemblies from the semantic point of view. This acknowledged, all the documents produced are dynamically analysed. This tool allows the best monitoring activity over the Assemblies in real time, following their evolution over a specific period and steering a transversal analyse of the studied topics in the relevant Assembly.

Finally, potential perspectives and political analysis crossing the previous results are offered by the steering committee chaired by Stéphane Rozès (political scientist, former chairman of the French survey institute, CSA).