Hansard Speeches and Sentiment V2.4

Full details are available at https://evanodell.com/projects/datasets/hansard-data

Summary

A public dataset of speeches in the Hansard, stored as a tibble class in RDS files, for the R programming language. The dataset provides information on every speech made in the House of Commons between the parliament returned from the 1979 general election and the parliamentary summer recess starting on 2017-07-20, with information on the speaking MP, their party, gender, birthdate, starting and finishing dates as an MP, and age at the time of the speech. The dataset also includes all speeches made from 1936 to the dissolution of parliament for the 1979 general election. The post-1979 election dataset is labelled hansard_senti_post_V24 and the pre-1979 election dataset is labelled hansard_senti_pre_V24.

The `hansard_senti_post_V24` dataset contains 2,169,348 speeches and 373,323,215 words. The `hansard_senti_pre_V24` dataset contains 2,977,461 speeches and 406,062,364 words. It is distributed under a Creative Commons 4.0 BY-SA licence.

Notes

The code and matching data used to generate this dataset is available on Github.

The data used to create this dataset was taken from the parlparse project operated by They Work For You and supported by mySociety.

The dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The code used to create this dataset is licensed under an MIT license.

Please contact me if you find any errors in the dataset. The integrity of the public Hansard record is questionable at times, and while I have improved it, the data is presented 'as is'.