senators: Senator Dataset

Description Usage Format Details Source

Description

Senator Dataset

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 288,615 rows representing tweets and 10 variables:

created_at

The date and time the tweet was posted

user

The user posting the tweet

text

The text of the tweet

url

The link to the tweet

replies

The number of replies to the tweet

retweets

The number of retweets

favorites

The number of favorites

bioguide_id

The poster's member ID from the "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress"

party

The poster's political party affiliation

state

The state the poster represents in Congress

Details

Data collected on Oct 19 and 20

Source

Twitter


fivethirtyeightdata/fivethirtyeightdata documentation built on Oct. 10, 2021, 2:13 p.m.