GovTweets

Data Science project: analyze tweets of the U.S. Congressmen

Setup

Just run: python setup.py develop

Data sources

We take the data from the following wources:

Tweets of Congress

• GitHub repo: https://github.com/alexlitel/congresstweets
• Web site to download JSON data: https://alexlitel.github.io/congresstweets/

List of Congressmen

GitHub project: https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators

Election Returns

County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ