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Episode Synopsis "S1E1 - Linked Parliamentary Data Project - Chris Cochrane"
Christopher Cochrane is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and principal Investigator of the Linked Parliamentary Data project. He is the author of Left and Right: The Small World of Political Ideas (MQUP, 2015) and co-author, with Kelly Blidook and Rand Dyck, of Canadian Politics: Critical Approaches (Nelson, 2016). Cochrane and colleagues run the Linked Parliamentary Data Project, otherwise known as LIPAD, which is digitizing and analyzing the written record of debate in the Canadian House of Commons. Transcripts of Canadian political debate, known as Hansard, dates back 150 years in Canada’s history, before even the birth of the typewriter. The LIPAD team estimates that it would take almost 100 years to read all of the records from the House and the Senate, which is why they are now creating the first-ever machine-readable and fully searchable open database for every word that has been uttered in the House of Commons. They’re constantly updating their database, organizing by policy topics, and tagging demographic data, such as gender and party of politicians who have spoken in the House of Commons. The music for this episode is titled "Complicated" by Toronto-based musician, Chris Oday. Artwork for the show was created by Gladys Ng. Her portfolio can be viewed at gladysng.ca Support Stage 2 by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/stage-2
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