{"id":6123,"date":"2025-01-13T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=6123"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:18:42","slug":"us-election-data-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2025\/01\/13\/us-election-data-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"US election data sets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Covering 2000-2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently released by Library of Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.labs.loc.gov%2Fus-elections%2F%3Floclr%3Dblogsig&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C507a351d19204e6e0f2308dd31570267%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638720971987625317%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C20000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Zz8QxZtLawczuVN%2BbpsFsJu5vNfPdydrbtdB19%2Bh2ls%3D&amp;reserved=0\">data package<\/a>\u00a0on <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.labs.loc.gov%2Fpackages%2F%3Floclr%3Dblogsig&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C507a351d19204e6e0f2308dd31570267%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638720971987641043%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C20000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=CffEfmKI7qVMnQt7oD74rUYx39rnf%2FsZ%2Beu3xpiuMS0%3D&amp;reserved=0\">data.labs.loc.gov\/packages<\/a>\/, with associated\u00a0 new resources to help researchers understand and use the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new data package includes enhanced <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.labs.loc.gov%2Fus-elections%2FREADME.html%3Floclr%3Dblogsig&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C507a351d19204e6e0f2308dd31570267%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638720971987655199%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C20000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=o7Z9tmNAueuqAUYw5oVVnvu45kmbcZBrsuo5uKmgd%2BY%3D&amp;reserved=0\">documentation<\/a>\u00a0explaining the contents of the dataset and how it was created, \u00a0as well as metadata for candidate campaign sites extracted from the United States Elections Web Archive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flibraryofcongress.github.io%2Fdata-exploration%2FData%2520Packages%2Fus-elections.html%3Floclr%3Dblogsig&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C507a351d19204e6e0f2308dd31570267%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638720971987669262%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C20000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=fPU722VL703xgm9F09lr4iAR9lwVu%2BBWEtstcZG39c8%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Python notebook<\/a>\u00a0is available to demonstrate the basics of using the dataset\u2014including how to query the metadata, filter and download CDX files, and analyse the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covering 2000-2016. 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