demdebates2020

The goal of demdebates2020 is to provide access to all transcripts of
the Democratic debates of the 2020 Presidential Election.

Usage

The package includes a single dataset: debates. This dataset
represents the spoken words of all Democratic candidates for US
president at eleven Democratic debates. The following
sources have been
used to compile the data: Washington Post, Des Moines Register and
rev.com. The dataset has the following eight columns:

speaker: Who is speaking
background: Reactions from the audience, includes (APPLAUSE) or
(LAUGHTER)
- only availabe for the first seven and ninth debates
speech: Transcribed speech
type: Candidate, Moderator or Protester
gender: The gender of the person speaking
debate: Which debate
day: Which day of the debate
- first and second debate were held on two separate days
order: The order in which the speech acts were delivered

There are two ways in which you can access the dataset.

Read .csv file directly from GitHub

debates_url <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/favstats/demdebates2020/master/data/debates.csv"
debates <- readr::read_csv(debates_url)

Install and load the R package like this:

devtools::install_github("favstats/demdebates2020")
library(demdebates2020)

Example

demdebates2020::debates %>% 
  dplyr::slice(1508:1510) %>% 
  knitr::kable()

speaker	background	speech	type	gender	debate	day	order
Bernie Sanders	NA	One of the differences - one of the differences that Joe and I have in our record is Joe voted for that war, I helped lead the opposition to that war, which was a total disaster.	Candidate	male	1	2	759
Bernie Sanders	(APPLAUSE)	NA	Candidate	male	1	2	760
Bernie Sanders	NA	Second of all, I helped lead the effort for the first time to utilize the War Powers Act to get the United States out of the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, which is the most horrific humanitarian disaster on Earth.	Candidate	male	1	2	761

Blog Post

Check out this blog post for
some more data exploration.

demdebates2020

Usage

Example

Blog Post

Sources