Playing with Library of Parliament data on parliamentarians in Canada.
To enable this repo, download a copy of the data repo (which includes instructions for downloading the data yourself, if you want an up-to-date copy). You’ll want to copy data/source/lop/ from the data repo into the data/ folder of this repo. Once you’re done, this repo should have a data/source/lop/parliamentarians/ folder with over 5,000 files in it.
Then, you can run load.R. It may take a few minutes and throw up some errors / warnings—as long as it loads all the data, though, you’re all good! (If not, consider adding an issue so we can sort out what’s happening.) It’s a somewhat large dataset (probably over 1 GB once loaded into R).
A scratch list for myself:
- Critic roles (which have poor dating, understandable)
- How often do they change in a session?
- Are they linked to (or do they generate) news coverage, legislation?
- Education
- Which schools? (correlation to Senate/MP, Minister, etc?)
- Trends over time: level of education, type of degrees
The analysis/ folder contains various inquiries I’ve launched. It’s very messy.