W43GVG / US-Politicians-Twitter-Dataset

Dataset based on Twitter usernames of American politicians. Data extracted from Wikidata.

US Politicians Twitter Dataset

Dataset based on Twitter usernames of American politicians. Data was extracted from Wikidata with SPARQL.

Variables :

1. Mandatory
   • Name
   • Twitter_username
   • Sex
2. Optional
   • Account_start_time
   • Account_ID
   • Instagram_username
   • Facebook_ID
   • Birthplace
   • Birthday
   • Age
   • Political_party
   • Image

The same politician can appear several times: if he has different pseudonyms on Twitter or Instagram, if he has been in several parties, or if several Twitter account IDs are associated with him. But the data is sorted in ascending order by name, so it is visible. See the examples part, where Julia Brownley is present twice.

Examples

git clone https://github.com/W43GVG/US-Politicians-Twitter-Dataset

gh repo clone W43GVG/US-Politicians-Twitter-Dataset

JSON

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/W43GVG/US-Politicians-Twitter-Dataset/master/dataset.json

dataset.json

    {
        "Name": "A. Donald McEachin",
        "Twitter_username": "RepMcEachin",
        "Twitter_account_start_time": "2017-01-03T00:00:00Z",
        "Account_ID": "816181091673448448",
        "Sex": "male",
        "Birthplace": "Germany",
        "birthday": "1961-10-10T00:00:00Z",
        "age": "59.0",
        "Instagram_username": "repmceachin",
        "Facebook_ID": "RepMcEachin",
        "Political_party": "Democratic Party"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Aaron Michlewitz",
        "Twitter_username": "RepMichlewitz",
        "Twitter_account_start_time": "2010-06-27T00:00:00Z",
        "Account_ID": "160246973",
        "Sex": "male",
        "Birthplace": "United States of America",
        "birthday": "1978-01-01T00:00:00Z",
        "age": "42.0",
        "Political_party": "Democratic Party"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Aaron Peskin",
        "Twitter_username": "AaronPeskin",
        "Twitter_account_start_time": "2010-11-13T00:00:00Z",
        "Account_ID": "215369273",
        "Sex": "male",
        "Birthplace": "United States of America",
        "birthday": "1964-06-17T00:00:00Z",
        "age": "56.0",
        "Instagram_username": "apeskin52",
        "Facebook_ID": "aaron.peskin",
        "Political_party": "Democratic Party"
    },
    {
        "Name": "Aaron Peña",
        "Twitter_username": "AaronPena",
        "Twitter_account_start_time": "2007-10-31T00:00:00Z",
        "Account_ID": "9843332",
        "Sex": "male",
        "Birthplace": "United States of America",
        "birthday": "1959-06-08T00:00:00Z",
        "age": "61.0",
        "Political_party": "Republican Party"
    },

CSV

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/W43GVG/US-Politicians-Twitter-Dataset/master/dataset.csv

dataset.csv

Name	Twitter_username	Twitter_account_start_time	Account_ID	Sex	Birthplace	birthday	age	Instagram_username	Facebook_ID	Political_party
A. Donald McEachin	RepMcEachin	2017-01-03T00:00:00Z	816181091673448448	male	Germany	1961-10-10T00:00:00Z	59.0	repmceachin	RepMcEachin	Democratic Party
Aaron Michlewitz	RepMichlewitz	2010-06-27T00:00:00Z	160246973	male	United States of America	1978-01-01T00:00:00Z	42.0			Democratic Party
Aaron Peskin	AaronPeskin	2010-11-13T00:00:00Z	215369273	male	United States of America	1964-06-17T00:00:00Z	56.0	apeskin52	aaron.peskin	Democratic Party
Aaron Peña	AaronPena	2007-10-31T00:00:00Z	9843332	male	United States of America	1959-06-08T00:00:00Z	61.0			Republican Party
Aaron Schock	aaronschock	2009-03-12T00:00:00Z	23951197	male	United States of America	1981-05-28T00:00:00Z	39.0	aaronschock		Republican Party
Abby Finkenauer	Abby4Iowa	2013-03-12T00:00:00Z	1262017122	female	United States of America	1988-12-27T00:00:00Z	31.0	abby4iowa	RepAbbyFinkenauer	Democratic Party
Abigail Spanberger	SpanbergerVA07	2018-12-28T00:00:00Z	1078771401497161728	female	United States of America	1978-08-01T00:00:00Z	42.0	repspanberger	RepSpanberger	Democratic Party
Abigail Spanberger	RepSpanberger	2018-12-28T00:00:00Z	1078771401497161728	female	United States of America	1978-08-01T00:00:00Z	42.0	repspanberger	RepSpanberger	Democratic Party

CSV : 2964 rows.

Changes

April 28, 2021

Refining the results (e.g., removal of politicians who are American but practising in other countries).

February 5, 2021

Refining the results (e.g., removal of politicians who are American but practising in other countries).

Added one variable:

• Facebook_ID

Modified:

• Account_start_time -> Twitter_account_start_time

November 29, 2020

Refining the results (e.g., removal of politicians who are American but practising in other countries).

November 17, 2020 (2)

Added two variables:

• Birthday
• Age

Refining the results (e.g., removal of politicians who are American but practising in other countries).

November 17, 2020

Added two variables:

• Account_start_time
• Account_ID

Removed one variable:

• Image

Modified:

• birth -> country of birth (Birthplace)

Last update

February 5, 2020.

External uses

This datased has been ported to Kaggle (not by me).

It was used for building this dataset.

License, notes

W43GVG | Wikidata under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Note that the data is extracted from Wikidata, so there may be errors. In case of errors, it is preferable to correct it directly on Wikidata, so it will be corrected in the dataset in the next update.