What We Do
Our team maps sources of information and influence, identifies leads, analyses impacts, and works with your team to action the data and get results.
Data Cleaning
Winning campaigns start with good data. Brigade has developed programs that clean your data, removing inconsistencies, duplicates, formatting errors, bad or out-dated information and odd or unwanted characters, leaving you with data you can rely on in a format that you can use.
Data Elaboration
Brigade uses a combination of self-developed code and publicly available datasets to add additional information to our clients’ data. This includes gender and ethnicity identification, political donor database matching, wealth screening, geolocation info for mapping, email and phone carrier verification, and providing additional cell phone and landline numbers.
Data Collection
Brigade has tools to help you collect your data, including Optical Character Recognition for converting smartphone photos to computer readable text and householded walksheets for door-to-door campaigning.
Political Research
Open Source Intelligence Techniques (OSINT) are used to collect publicly available information on a person or topic.
Brigade has experience screening candidates and providing hard-to-find and actionable intelligence from online communities, social networks, and other datasets and databases.
Database Warehousing
Brigade provides on/off site and cloud-based data warehousing services.
Data Science
Brigade helps organizations develop project specific solutions through machine learning and predictive modelling. We can help you identify new supporters, donors, and influencers.
Network/Influencer Analysis
Brigade maps the relationships between people and organizations sharing information to identify pressure points, positive and negative influencers and any automated accounts promoting misconceptions.
Data Analysis
Brigade can provide advice and key insights from data to improve your operations, find talent, identify leads, develop data-driven tactics and messaging and potentially help you avoid a crisis. We can also help identify policy impacts on constituents or stated priorities.
Data Visualization
Brigade presents data in easily understood, creative and actionable ways. For elected officials and candidates, Brigade can create dashboards to keep you informed of key metrics from your constituency, including recent real-estate sales, labour market and crime statistics, local school and healthcare facility performance and other available datasets.