Senator Dataset — senators • fivethirtyeightdata

Senator Dataset

senators

Format

A data frame with 288,615 rows representing tweets and 10 variables:

created_at: The date and time the tweet was posted
user: The user posting the tweet
text: The text of the tweet
url: The link to the tweet
replies: The number of replies to the tweet
retweets: The number of retweets
favorites: The number of favorites
bioguide_id: The poster's member ID from the "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress"
party: The poster's political party affiliation
state: The state the poster represents in Congress

Twitter

Data collected on Oct 19 and 20