3D visualization of legislative relationships
Alexander Ehm, Gudrun Socher, Foaad Khosmood · 2018
Government relationships can be complex and difficult to understand. The relationships between members of a legislature, bills, votes and lobbyists who promote various causes are important to understand in representative democracies, but difficult to retrieve using current methods. In this paper, we propose a 3D visualization system to explore such legislative relationships for users. We use real data from California state legislature obtained from the Digital Democracy project. We also conduct a 20 person user study to gauge the differences between traditional ways of looking up information versus our graph based methods. While not being as comprehensive, most users found our interactive visualizations more intuitive than regular web-based information retrieval.