Join us at The Gathering in Edinburgh to hear from journalists, environmental campaigners and anti-corruption researchers about the ways lobbying transparency data can help demonstrate who decision makers are meeting and expose undue influence.

With The Ferret and Friends of the Earth Scotland, we will share how lobbying data is used to generate news stories, raise transparency issues and campaign for change.

You'll leave the event with a better understanding of who is successfully lobbying members of parliament, where there are gaps in transparency data, and how you might analyse lobbying data to contribute to your work by making links between lobbying meetings, parliamentary debates and policy decisions - enabling closer examination of exactly who is influencing real-world outcomes.

We will share an exciting new tool, which allows users to both analyse and compare lobbying transparency data at Holyrood and Westminster. It also leverages machine learning to allow searches by topic, including climate, housing, defence, finance and health. The AI will also seek to discern links between, for example, fossil fuel narratives and contributions to parliamentary debates.

This event will showcase the tool, which we hope will allow people working on specific subject areas to interrogate transparency data more efficiently and effectively.