Published April 4, 2024 | Version v0.1
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congress-bills

  • 1. ROR icon University of Vermont

Description

Overview

This is a temporal hypergraph dataset, which here means a sequence of timestamped hyperedges where each hyperedge is a set of nodes. In this dataset, nodes are US Congresspersons, and hyperedges comprise the sponsor and co-sponsors of legislative bills put forth in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Timestamps are in ISO8601 format. The dataset was derived from James Fowler's data.

Statistics

Some basic statistics of this dataset are:

  • Number of nodes: 1,718
  • Number of timestamped hyperedges: 282,049
  • There is a single connected component of size 1,718

Source of original data

Source: congress-bills dataset

References

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