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Even that is flawed because it is not Congressioanl Representation Per Capita. Not having it be per-capita overvalues high population schools like Harvard.
I agree, needs to be ranked per capita, but I still think that Harvard would be #1.
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Even that is flawed because it is not Congressioanl Representation Per Capita. Not having it be per-capita overvalues high population schools like Harvard.
What gives you the idea that Harvard is high population? It only has ~21000 at a time, including undergrad, grad, and professional students. Cal has 38000.
This is what's wrong with the US
Congressmen. Congressmen! Members of Congress, if you must. "Congressmembers" is an abomination. I suspect that most female members of Congress would agree. Edit: I agree with Michael. If we're going to use a neologism, let's use "congresscritter", because it correctly implies that they are slimy and disgusting creatures.
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Looks like there are many different Wesleyan Universities lumped into one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Wesleyan_University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Wesleyan_University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Wesleyan_University
Oh you think it is an error in that the algorithm was not able to tell them apart from "the" Wesleyan? http://www.wesleyan.edu/
I think it's interesting (and somewhat saddening) how the engineering schools on the list tend to be outliers in their rank to legislator ratio. I would assume it's due to the general breakdown of majors at those schools, but it's still unfortunate that STEM majors don't seem to have a good pathway into political activism.
I worked the Obama campaign in '12. It was a blast, and I met a bunch of awesome people.
Congressmen. Congressmen! Members of Congress, if you must. "Congressmembers" is an abomination. I suspect that most female members of Congress would agree. Edit: I agree with Michael. If we're going to use a neologism, let's use "congresscritter", because it correctly implies that they are slimy and disgusting creatures.
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Instead of mining the bio guide, I would mine Wikipedia. There is a page listing all members of the current U.S. Congress [0], and that page links to each member's own Wikipedia page. Almost without exception, each current member's personal page names the universities the member graduated from in the info box. So mine the membership list for the members' names and the URLs of their personal Wikipedia pages, then mine…
I haven't looked at extreme edge cases, but you're right, Wikipedia tends to have the right alma mater, included situations in which someone has only attended classes but isn't reported as actually matriculating. It wouldn't require a big traversal of Wikipedia (though I imagine that would be easy enough)...the unitedstates Github repo, which is a semi-automated crowdsourced repo of Congress data, has all the histori…