congress-bills
Description
Nodes represent legislators. Each hyperedge represents a bill and contains the set of legislators associated with that bill (e.g., sponsor and cosponsor lists).
Basic statistics
- Nodes: 1718
- Hyperedges: 282049
- Unique hyperedges: 105733
- Max size hyperedge: 400
Hypergraph metadata
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| name | (STRING) Dataset name (e.g., congress-bills). |
| type | (STRING) Hypergraph type (e.g., TemporalHypergraph). |
| version | (STRING) Dataset version (e.g., 1.0.0). |
| weighted | (BOOL) Whether the hypergraph is weighted (e.g., true). |
Node metadata
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| name | (STRING) Legislator name with state and district (e.g., Dayton, Mark [MN]). |
Hyperedge metadata
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| original_timestamp | (INT) Raw bill-introduction timestamp from the Cornell source file, measured in days (e.g., 720261). |
| time | (INT) Normalized bill-introduction timestamp, equal to original_timestamp minus the minimum raw timestamp in the dataset (e.g., 615). |
| weight | (INT) Number of bills collapsed into this sponsor/cosponsor set at the same introduction time (e.g., 6). |
Hyperedge size distribution
Hyperdegree distribution
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Provenance
Source: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~arb/data/congress-bills/
License: Not specified. Please refer to the original source for licensing terms.
Reproducibility: Instructions and scripts
Citation
When this data is used in published research or for visualization purposes, please cite the following:
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@article{benson2018simplicial,
title = {Simplicial closure and higher-order link prediction},
author = {Benson, Austin R. and Abebe, Rediet and Schaub, Michael T. and Jadbabaie, Ali and Kleinberg, Jon},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
year = {2018},
publisher = {National Academy of Sciences},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1800683115},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800683115}
}
@article{fowler2006connecting,
title = {Connecting the Congress: A Study of Cosponsorship Networks},
author = {Fowler, James H.},
journal = {Political Analysis},
volume = {14},
number = {4},
pages = {456--487},
year = {2006},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
doi = {10.1093/pan/mpl002},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpl002}
}
@article{fowler2006cosponsorship,
title = {Legislative cosponsorship networks in the {US} House and Senate},
author = {Fowler, James H.},
journal = {Social Networks},
volume = {28},
number = {4},
pages = {454--465},
year = {2006},
publisher = {Elsevier},
doi = {10.1016/j.socnet.2005.11.003},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2005.11.003}
}