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Is data for pre-90s years available? I am really curious to see the 60-70-80s progression.
There's probably some cool insights in here, but I'll need some help understanding it. For instance, what does an edge in the graph represent? What can I tell from the boldness of the line? @DavidChoinard can you give us a key?
The thickness of edges represents the number of times the pair of senators voted the same in the Senate (only edges above a threshold are shown). The two tightly coiled clusters shows just how weak the relationships are between the two parties. The closer the nodes are to the center, the more bipartisan those Senators are. In the current Congress, Sens. Murkowski and Collins really stand out as by far the most bipart…
There's probably some cool insights in here, but I'll need some help understanding it. For instance, what does an edge in the graph represent? What can I tell from the boldness of the line? @DavidChoinard can you give us a key?
The thickness of edges represents the number of times the pair of senators voted the same in the Senate (only edges above a threshold are shown). The two tightly coiled clusters shows just how weak the relationships are between the two parties. The closer the nodes are to the center, the more bipartisan those Senators are. In the current Congress, Sens. Murkowski and Collins really stand out as by far the most bipart…
It would be helpful to see an animation to clarify this, but it's interesting to quantify how increasingly polarized this has become, starting in the early '90s.
+1 If the author could get data from 1980-2013, and make it into a 60 second animation, it would be really interesting to see.
what's the story on Miller (D-GA) 2003-2004?
Can someone make a glass app that covers a politicians face with the logos of their largest interests? That would make politics bearable for me.
Nice work David. For anyone interested in this type of analysis, Harvard has a new Data Science course this semester that had this node relationship analysis as a HW using the same data sources. You can check out the course site at: cs109.org
Nice work David. For anyone interested in this type of analysis, Harvard has a new Data Science course this semester that had this node relationship analysis as a HW using the same data sources. You can check out the course site at: cs109.org
There's probably some cool insights in here, but I'll need some help understanding it. For instance, what does an edge in the graph represent? What can I tell from the boldness of the line? @DavidChoinard can you give us a key?
The thickness of edges represents the number of times the pair of senators voted the same in the Senate (only edges above a threshold are shown). The two tightly coiled clusters shows just how weak the relationships are between the two parties. The closer the nodes are to the center, the more bipartisan those Senators are. In the current Congress, Sens. Murkowski and Collins really stand out as by far the most bipart…
I would expect that to create a somewhat different dynamic than the party alignments of today.
