README.md
In favstats/demdebates2020: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)

demdebates2020

The goal of demdebates2020 is to provide access to all transcripts of the Democratic debates of the 2020 Presidential Election.

The package includes a single dataset: debates. This dataset represents the spoken words of all Democratic candidates for US president at eleven Democratic debates. The following sources have been used to compile the data: Washington Post, Des Moines Register and rev.com. The dataset has the following eight columns:

speaker: Who is speaking
background: Reactions from the audience, includes (APPLAUSE) or (LAUGHTER)
- only availabe for the first seven and ninth debates
speech: Transcribed speech
type: Candidate, Moderator or Protester
gender: The gender of the person speaking
debate: Which debate
day: Which day of the debate
- first and second debate were held on two separate days
order: The order in which the speech acts were delivered

There are two ways in which you can access the dataset.

Read .csv file directly from GitHub

debates_url <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/favstats/demdebates2020/master/data/debates.csv"

debates <- readr::read_csv(debates_url)

Install and load the R package like this:

devtools::install_github("favstats/demdebates2020")

library(demdebates2020)

demdebates2020::debates %>% 
  dplyr::slice(1508:1510) %>% 
  knitr::kable()

| speaker | background | speech | type | gender | debate | day | order | | :------------- | :--------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :-------- | :----- | -----: | --: | ----: | | Bernie Sanders | NA | One of the differences - one of the differences that Joe and I have in our record is Joe voted for that war, I helped lead the opposition to that war, which was a total disaster. | Candidate | male | 1 | 2 | 759 | | Bernie Sanders | (APPLAUSE) | NA | Candidate | male | 1 | 2 | 760 | | Bernie Sanders | NA | Second of all, I helped lead the effort for the first time to utilize the War Powers Act to get the United States out of the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, which is the most horrific humanitarian disaster on Earth. | Candidate | male | 1 | 2 | 761 |

Check out this blog post for some more data exploration.