senate-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: 294
- Hyperedges: 29157
- Unique hyperedges: 21721
- Max size hyperedge: 99
Hypergraph metadata
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| name | (STRING) Dataset name (e.g., senate-bills). |
| type | (STRING) Hypergraph type (e.g., Hypergraph). |
| version | (STRING) Dataset version (e.g., 1.0.0). |
| weighted | (BOOL) Whether the hypergraph is weighted (e.g., true). |
Node metadata
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| label | (STRING) Political party affiliation (e.g., Democrat). |
| name | (STRING) Name of the legislator represented by the node (e.g., MCCLELLAN). |
Hyperedge metadata
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| weight | (INT) Number of times this bill sponsor configuration appeared (e.g., 2). |
Hyperedge size distribution
Hyperdegree distribution
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Provenance
Source: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~arb/data/senate-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{chodrow2021hypergraph,
title = {Hypergraph clustering: from blockmodels to modularity},
author = {Chodrow, Philip S. and Veldt, Nate and Benson, Austin R.},
journal = {Science Advances},
volume = {7},
number = {28},
pages = {eabh1303},
year = {2021},
publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.abh1303},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abh1303}
}
@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}
}