Dataset of European Parliament roll-call votes and Twitter activities MEP 1.0

Name: Dataset of European Parliament roll-call votes and Twitter activities MEP 1.0
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Cherepnalkoski, Darko; Karpf, Andreas; Mozetič, Igor; Grčar, Miha

Dataset of European Parliament roll-call votes and Twitter activities MEP 1.0

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Authors: Cherepnalkoski, Darko ; Karpf, Andreas ; Mozetič, Igor and Grčar, Miha

Item identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1071

Referenced by: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166586

Date issued: 2016-08-05

Type: corpus, text

Size: 26133 items

Language(s): Multiple languages

Description: The resource consists of two datasets related to Members of the 8th European Parliament (MEPs). The first one is a dataset of 2,535 roll-call votes of MEPs until 2016-03-01. The second one is a dataset of 26,133 retweets between MEPs in the period between 2014-10-01 and 2016-03-01. The data can be used to examine the patterns of covoting and retweeting of MEPs and analyze the extent to which they are similar. The resource is presented and used in the paper: Darko Cherepnalkoski, Andreas Karpf, Igor Mozetič, Miha Grčar "Cohesion and coalition formation in the European Parliament: Roll-call votes and Twitter activities". PLoS ONE 11(11): e0166586, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166586 The dataset contains 5 files, of which 3 contain metadata and 2 data. The metadata comprises information about the Members of 8th European Parliament (MEPs) until 2016-03-01, about roll-call votes (RCV) and possible actions during a RCV. The first data file contains a matrix with the votes of all MEPs during all RCVs while the second contains the retweets between the MEPs.

Publisher: Jožef Stefan Institute

Subject(s): European parliament roll-call votes Twitter multilingual

Collection(s): CLARIN.SI data & tools

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The MEP 1.0 dataset contains 5 files, of which 3 contain metadata, 1
contains roll-call vote data, and 1 contains retweet info.

Files containing metadata:

* mep_info.json
Contains metadata about the Members of 8th European Parliament until 2016-03-01 as a JSON dictionary. 
Each dictionary entry represents metadata for one MEP. 
The key of the entry is the mepId. 
The values include the following information:
- fullName: the name of the MEP
- from: the date in ISO format when he/she became a MEP
- to: for MEPs which left the EP, the date in ISO format when he/she left, otherwise null
- substituting: for MEPs which substituted another MEP, the id of the subsituted MEP, otherwise null
- substitutedBy: for MEPs which left the EP, the id of the MEP which subsituted him/her, otherwise null
- twitterId: the Twitter id of the MEP if he/she has one, otherwise null
- twitterScreenName: the Twitter account of the MEP if he/she has one, otherwise null
- politicalGroupId: the id of the European p . . .