Congress Data
Table of Contents
Overview
A project to model connections between Congresspeople and events as a graph.
- Nodes
- Congresspeople, Committees
- Edges
- Events (congressional), with a "common basis" and an "obstacle" as edge attributes
- (no term)
- Open question: whether to collapse multiple events into a single edge
Open questions / design notes
- Filters: static vs. distinct vs. complex?
- Methodology for how connection strength decays across different data sets
- Delivery: serve ~20MB of graph data to the client directly, or use Plotly server-side?
- Would clustering produce a better presentation than the raw graph?
- Unresolved: what to do with the underlying project files