Time to mark attendance!
Are you getting your money worth from your elected Member of Parliament?
Someone called David Chua has created a simple script to scrap data from Singapore Parliament’s proceeding reports. This script helps to track MP’s absentee records and outputs the result into a sqlite3 database.
You can find out more HERE and HERE.
This is the list of the top absentees as of 13 August 2012:
---------------------------- Absentees on Last Parliament Sitting: 13/08/2012 ---------------------------- Mr Charles Chong of Joo Chiat Mr Christopher De Souza of Holland-bukit Timah Mr Mah Bow Tan of Tampines Mr Seah Kian Peng of Marine Parade Dr Teo Ho Pin of Bukit Panjang ---------------------------- Stats ---------------------------- Top 5 absent MPs: Mr Lee Kuan Yew with 17 Mr Mah Bow Tan with 14 Associate Professor Dr Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim with 8 Dr Teo Ho Pin with 8 Mr Raymond Lim Siang Keat with 7 Top 5 wards with highest number of absentees: Tanjong Pagar with 29 Tampines with 28 East Coast with 22 West Coast with 15 Nee Soon with 12
