twfy - Drive the API for TheyWorkForYou

An R wrapper around the API of TheyWorkForYou, a parliamentary monitoring site that scrapes and repackages Hansard (the UK's parliamentary record) and augments it with information from the Register of Members' Interests, election results, and voting records to provide a unified source of information about UK legislators and their activities. See <http://www.theyworkforyou.com> for details.

Last updated 6 years ago

4.65 score 9 stars 3 scripts 109 downloads

austin - Do Things with Words

Doing things with words currently means scaling documents on a presumed underlying dimension on the basis of word frequencies and heroic assumptions about language generation.

Last updated 4 years ago

4.62 score 17 stars 49 scripts

events - Store and Manipulate Event Data

The events package manipulates, aggregates and otherwise messes with event data from 'KEDS' and 'TABARI' software and those with similar output. It also bundles several classic event data sets. Most functions are superseded by those in 'dplyr' and 'tidyr'.

Last updated 3 years ago

3.50 score 3 stars 21 scripts 15 downloads

cbn - Tools and replication materials for Caliskan, Bryson, and Narayanan (2017)

This package allows users to replicate the analysis in the paper and also provides general purpose tools for working with a large word vector file and comparing groups of words with permutation statistics from the original paper. Alternative bootstrapped versions with confidence intervals are also available.

Last updated 5 years ago

3.48 score 2 stars 6 scripts