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We approached Google for the data on search patterns.\n\n## Get the data\n\n* CSV: [\"Search interest in 'register to vote' by UK location over the last 7 days. All values indexed to 100, where 100 is the max value](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBC-Data-Unit/election-google/master/BBC-%20Google%20Trends%20request%20-%20register%20to%20vote.csv)\n* CSV: [\"Search interest in 'who should I vote for' by UK location over the last 7 days. All values indexed to 100, where 100 is the max value](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBC-Data-Unit/election-google/master/BBC-%20Google%20Trends%20request%20-%20who%20should%20I%20vote%20for.csv)\n* [Most searched party leader in each constituency 17 Oct 2016-17 April 2017](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBC-Data-Unit/election17-google/master/most%20searched%20party%20leader%20in%20each%20constituency%2017%20Oct%202016-17%20April%202017.csv). *Note: Jonathan Bartley, Leanne Wood, Robin Swann/Mike Nesbitt, Gerry Adams and Colum Eastwood were also included in the analysis but didn't come top in any constituency*.\n* Google also had data on [Google Trends for BBC England: Top searched political issue by constituency, Oct 2016-Apr 2017](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SfdGkCc1QeSaTyjb7lBUYbokfGO3MueSLC_VQRYEDNM/edit#gid=0), which is [mapped here](https://googledataorg.carto.com/u/googledata/viz/fed4d4ae-2a90-11e7-8624-42010a148070/embed_map). These are *'searches that have been determined by Google's algorithm as falling into the \"politics\" category.'*\n\n## Visualisation and interactivity\n\n* Bar chart: \"Who should I vote for?\" Search interest by area (top 10)\n* Search widget: Find your constituency and candidates\n* Bar chart: \"Register to vote\" Search interest by area (top 10)\n\n## Related repos\n\n* April 2017: [How non-voters can change the outcome of an election](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/non-voters)\n* May 2017: [Election 2017: Places with the lowest voter registration](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/election17-voter-registration)\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Felection17-google","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Felection17-google","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbbc-data-unit%2Felection17-google/lists"}