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The Vector Space of the Polish Parliament in Pictures

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Re: The Vector Space of the Polish Parliament in Pictures

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Post by idlewords »

This is a wonderful analysis. For context, a little bit about the four major parties:

PO, Citizen's Platform, the center-right liberal (in the European economic sense) ruling party. Very pro-European, pro-German.

PiS, Law and Justice, mainstream right wing nationalist party, very Catholic, pro-Europe economically but fighting culture wars over in vitro, gay marriage and so on.

PSL, Polish People's Party, agrarian party with roots stretching back to before WWII. Represents rural interests.

SLD, Democratic Leftist Union, the post-Communist left that discredited itself horribly when last in power ten years ago (through corruption scandals) and is still in the political wilderness. Pro-EU, very much a modern European left party in terms of platform but dominated by faces from the bad old days.

Re: The Vector Space of the Polish Parliament in Pictures

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Post by mci »

haddr wrote: post #4

This is really enlightening example! I would love to see some CSV dump of the scrapped data, because this work might inspire others to experiment and do interesting things as well...

That's a great idea. I've pushed a gzipped CSV file to https://bitbucket.org/mciura/sejm/

Re: The Vector Space of the Polish Parliament in Pictures

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Post by hebdo »

IshKebab wrote: post #8

This is great. It shows that there is more to the politics than just left-right. However, I do think the graphs are a bit misleading in that the x,y,z components are normalised in the figures, whereas actually y is far more significant than x or z.

The x direction explains 70.1% of the variance. y direction explains 8.5%.

> In our case, three initial left-singular vectors contribute 70.1%, 8.5%, and 3.6% of the total variance of R, respectively.

Re: The Vector Space of the Polish Parliament in Pictures

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Post by hebdo »

mci wrote: post #12
haddr wrote: post #4

This is really enlightening example! I would love to see some CSV dump of the scrapped data, because this work might inspire others to experiment and do interesting things as well...

That's a great idea. I've pushed a gzipped CSV file to https://bitbucket.org/mciura/sejm/

Thanks! I will run my own experiments in R on this data.

Re: The Vector Space of the Polish Parliament in Pictures

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Post by haddr »

mci wrote: post #12
haddr wrote: post #4

This is really enlightening example! I would love to see some CSV dump of the scrapped data, because this work might inspire others to experiment and do interesting things as well...

That's a great idea. I've pushed a gzipped CSV file to https://bitbucket.org/mciura/sejm/

Thanks a lot! I will have a look at it with some R scripts...

Re: The Vector Space of the Polish Parliament in Pictures

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Post by piotrrojek »

mci wrote: post #12
haddr wrote: post #4

This is really enlightening example! I would love to see some CSV dump of the scrapped data, because this work might inspire others to experiment and do interesting things as well...

That's a great idea. I've pushed a gzipped CSV file to https://bitbucket.org/mciura/sejm/

Thanks! I'll experiment with neo4j (graph db) and let's see what can we learn more about our politicians.
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