https://github.com/vikparuchuri/political-positions

Analyze politics.
https://github.com/vikparuchuri/political-positions

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Analyze politics.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vikparuchuri/political-positions
• Owner: VikParuchuri
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2013-07-29T20:58:43.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-02-20T10:22:43.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T13:45:36.968Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 783 KB
• Stars: 14
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 10
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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Political Positions

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Overview

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This repository is used for analysis of senate and other vote data.

This is licensed under the APACHE license, please see LICENSE.txt for details.

Installation

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You will need to have python 2.7 installed, and ideally a virtualenv installed.

Then, you can do the following:

```

git clone [email protected]:VikParuchuri/political-positions

cd political-positions

Activate virtualenv if you are using one

pip install -r requirements.txt

```

Usage

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After installing the requirements, you can do:

```

cd political-positions/crawler

scrapy crawl senate -o ../data/senate.json -t json

```

This will crawl the senate website and download voting data on senators.

Open and run the code in the `make_matrix.py` file to generate a csv from the json file.  

Then, you can open the `senate_analyzer.R` script and run it to produce charts.

How to Contribute

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Contributions are very welcome. The easiest way is to fork this repo, and then

make a pull request from your fork.

Please contact vik dot paruchuri at gmail with any questions or issues.