https://github.com/HowTheyVote/data
Weekly updated data on roll-call-votes in the European Parliament, as collected by https://howtheyvote.eu/.
https://github.com/HowTheyVote/data
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Weekly updated data on roll-call-votes in the European Parliament, as collected by https://howtheyvote.eu/.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/HowTheyVote/data
- Owner: HowTheyVote
- Created: 2024-08-16T12:11:55.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-12-02T03:29:54.000Z (10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-02T04:26:37.373Z (10 months ago)
- Topics: data, ep, eu, european, parliament, plenary, votes
- Homepage: https://howtheyvote.eu
- Size: 6.84 KB
- Stars: 8
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# HowTheyVote.eu Dataset
HowTheyVote.eu collects data about European Parliament roll-call votes and related data such as biographical information about MEPs and political groups. We provide our dataset in CSV format.
**[Read more about HowTheyVote.eu and our data license.](https://howtheyvote.eu/about)**
> [!TIP]
> In case of questions or feedback, please feel free to open a [ticket](https://github.com/HowTheyVote/howtheyvote/issues/new?template=Blank+issue&labels=data)!
> You can also reach out via email: mail at howtheyvote.eu
> In case you encounter an **error in our data**, please use [this form](https://tally.so/r/w2eb1M?type=Incorrect+vote+results&link=https%3A%2F%2Fhowtheyvote.eu) to report it!
## Latest Exports
To download the current dataset click [here](https://github.com/HowTheyVote/data/releases/latest).
There, you will find the documentation for each data export. At the bottom of each export, you can download all files as a single `export.zip` file.
## Stable Links
Besides downloading the whole export as a single `.zip` file, you can also download individual files.
These are provided as `csv.gz` files and are e.g., useful for scripting purposes. For example, the URL `https://github.com/HowTheyVote/data/releases/latest/download/votes.csv.gz` will always link to the latest available `Votes` CSV.
### How to: Load the export files into `pandas`
As an illustration, using these stable links, the following snippet shows how you can load the `Votes` table from our export into a `pandas` dataframe. Executing this code will always load the latest available version of this file.
```python
import pandas as pd
votes_df = pd.read_csv('https://github.com/HowTheyVote/data/releases/latest/download/votes.csv.gz', compression='gzip')
votes_df.head()
```
We also provide a file called `last_updated.txt`, in which the creation time of the export is stored as a timestamp.