Speech Learn: Model Relationship Between Congressional Speech and Ideology

This is an example for how to use text as data.

Steps

1. Using the Sunlight Foundation Capitol Words API, Download the Congressional Speech Data
2. Optional (also part of model): Clean text data using Python
3. Merge speech data with DW-Nominate data from Voteview
4. Model

Suggested Reading

1. See What Drives Media Slant (pdf)
2. A Measure of Media Bias (pdf)

License

Scripts are released under the MIT License.