MDS visualizations of the swedish parliament.

This is a hack that makes MDS visualizations based on the voting data from the swedish parliament.

Heavily inspired by chapter 9 of the book Machine Learning for Hackers and the python port available here.

Example

How to get it running?

Install dependencies

• Python
• Scikit-learn
• Pandas
• Matplotlib

1. Download data from riksdagen and unzip it
2. Run python prepare_data.py <path to your data> > prepared_data.csv
3. Run python plot_data.py prepared_data.csv
4. Check out the result by opening prepared_data.csv.png