Votes: Votes from Scottish Parliament
In mdsr: Complement to 'Modern Data Science with R'
Votes R Documentation
Votes from Scottish Parliament
Description
Votes recorded on each ballot by each member of the Scottish Parliament in
2008 along with information about party affiliation.
Usage
Votes
Parties
Format
Votes is a data.frame with 103582 rows and 3 variables.
- bill
an identifier for the bill
- name
the name of the member of parliament
- vote
1 means a vote for, -1 a vote against. 0 is an abstention.
Parties is a data.frame with 134 rows, one for each member of parliament, and 2 variables.
- party
the name of the political party the member belongs to
- name
the name of the member of parliament
An object of class data.frame with 134 rows and 2 columns.
Details
Almost all of the members of parliament belongs to a political party. This table
identifies that party. These data were provided by Caroline Ettinger and form part of her
senior honor's project at Macalester College. Prof. Andrew Beveridge supervised the
thesis. Ms. Ettinger used the vote data to explore how to extract the party association
of members purely from voting records. The Parties data was used to evaluate
the success of methods.
mdsr documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 5:07 p.m.
R Package Documentation
Browse R Packages
We want your feedback!
Note that we can't provide technical support on individual packages. You should contact the package authors for that.
| Votes | R Documentation |
Votes from Scottish Parliament
Description
Votes recorded on each ballot by each member of the Scottish Parliament in 2008 along with information about party affiliation.
Usage
Votes
Parties
Format
Votes is a data.frame with 103582 rows and 3 variables.
- bill
an identifier for the bill
- name
the name of the member of parliament
- vote
1 means a vote for, -1 a vote against. 0 is an abstention.
Parties is a data.frame with 134 rows, one for each member of parliament, and 2 variables.
- party
the name of the political party the member belongs to
- name
the name of the member of parliament
An object of class data.frame with 134 rows and 2 columns.
Details
Almost all of the members of parliament belongs to a political party. This table identifies that party. These data were provided by Caroline Ettinger and form part of her senior honor's project at Macalester College. Prof. Andrew Beveridge supervised the thesis. Ms. Ettinger used the vote data to explore how to extract the party association of members purely from voting records. The Parties data was used to evaluate the success of methods.
R Package Documentation
Browse R Packages
We want your feedback!
Note that we can't provide technical support on individual packages. You should contact the package authors for that.
Embedding an R snippet on your website
Add the following code to your website.
For more information on customizing the embed code, read Embedding Snippets.