Show HN: Voting Relationships in the US Senate
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Show HN: Voting Relationships in the US Senate
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#2A legend/key would be nice.
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#3There'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?
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#4There'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?
I'm guessing that the thickness of the edges represents how often do two given senators vote the same way on a bill. And then the nodes are laid out in a way to cluster together those that have a history of voting similarly.
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#5A legend/key would be nice.
I am assuming that the more clustered the circles are, the more like minded the party is? Each line represents a vote. So, a thick line between 2 congressman represents more general agreement, and thinner line means they agree only on a few things. Also, the position of the circles to the left or the right represents the extent of their political leaning, based on their votes.
Above are just informed guesses. A key really would be nice.
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#6It 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.
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#7This would be even cooler if it was somehow combined with the data from opensecrets.
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#8This algoritm pragmatically computes how far left/right a senater's polical views are by placing them in the corresponding place on the page
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#9I think it's fascinating watching how the parties have split up more over the years.
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#10Is data for pre-90s years available? I am really curious to see the 60-70-80s progression.