Congress Tweets
Posted: November 11th, 2009 | Author: andrea | Filed under: Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
Our project, CongressTweets, looks at the relationship between your Congressmen’s political activity in Congress vs his/her activity on twitter. We are trying to find out if twitter activity is a good measure of political activity and good way for communicating with constituents. We were also interested in looking at voting trends relating to party, gender, and geography.
For this project we used the NYTimes Congress API as well as several Twitter related APIs.
Please find a zip of our code here
Opening Page
Missed Votes % vs Voted with Party % (Representatives)
Missed Votes % vs Voted with Party % (Senators)
Someone tweets a lot!
So does this guy!
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[...] Congress Tweets is a project by Andrea Bradshaw and Laura Simpson at the collaboration studio “Data Visualization As Generative Narrative” at Parsons University. They examine possible correlations between activity on Twitter and political activity in general. Our project, CongressTweets, looks at the relationship between your Congressmen’s political activity in Congress vs his/her activity on twitter. We are trying to find out if twitter activity is a good measure of political activity and good way for communicating with constituents. We were also interested in looking at voting trends relating to party, gender, and geography. [...]
[...] The students tackled a wide range of topics — from tracking Iraq and Afghanistan war casualties over time to analyzing the volume of tweets as a way to determine the effectiveness of members of Congress. [...]