Releases: briatte/parlnet
v2.6.1 – Bugfixes and license patch
This patch
- fixes a few typos in the documentation
- corrects one erroneous network measure for Italy
- adds a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License to the repository
- adds the runtimes that were accidentally missing from version 2.6
v2.6 – Additional data and improvements
This release improves the code for Italy (which now depends on the lubridate package) and expands the data for its lower chamber by using its open data portal (see this issue for details). The data for that chamber now cover 9 legislatures, and the code can be set to cover all 17 legislatures since 1948.
The repository now builds 150 networks from approximately 558 years of data.
This release also uses legislature metadata taken from the latest (experimental) version of ParlGov.
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v2.5 – Additional data and bugfixes
This release
- sets all scrapers except Finland to collect data up to December 2015
- expands data collection for Austria, Denmark and Lithuania
- improves the sponsor-level variables of Austria and Estonia
- corrects minor details in the party affiliations of Switzerland
The repository now builds 146 networks from approximately 545 years of data.
The documentation has been updated to reflect the current stage of the project, and some possible future improvements have been added as issues to the repository.
📦 raw data
v2.4 – Additional data
This release adds data for Estonia, thanks to the new design of its parliamentary website. The networks are extremely sparse, as is also the case for a few other countries like Ireland (see release 2.0).
The repository now builds 140 networks from approximately 528 years of data.
This release also updates a minor part of the code for France.
📦 raw data
v2.3 – Additional data and updates
This release adds data for the upper chamber of the Czech Republic. The repository for both Czech chambers has been renamed from poslanecka to parlament.
The repository now builds 137 networks from approximately 519 years of data.
The code for several countries has been updated to work properly with rvest version 0.3.0, and the code of all repositories is compatible with ggplot2 version 1.1.0 2.0.0.
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v2.2 – Bugfixes
v2.1 – Additional data and bugfixes
This release
- adds data for Israel
- fixes a few bugs related to folder hierarchy creation
- adds links to additional cosponsorship networks
- improves documentation for a few countries
The repository now builds 131 networks from approximately 499 years of data.
Since adding Israel opens the perspective of pushing the data beyond European countries, some ideas for expansion are now listed in the wiki, along with a few other links and working notes. Expanding the data to Latin American countries by building on existing research seems a viable option.
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v2.0 – Documented release
This release contains links to the documentation and to the raw data collected up to August 2015, which represents over 1.5 million bill signatures in all 24 chambers of the 18 countries covered by the repository at that stage.
This release also adds Ireland, which is a borderline case of a country where bill cosponsorship is very, very low. The resulting networks are extremely sparse and contain only a handful of parliamentarians per legislature, but might still be worth examining.
The repository now builds 128 networks from approximately 492 years of data.
📦 raw data
v1.9 – Improvements
This release
- adds chamber-level metadata to all networks, including their IPU-PARLINE identifier
- adds checks on Wikipedia constituency handles and on other sponsor-level variables
- provides full URLs to the online pages of the sponsors and full local paths to their photos
- better handles duplicate sponsor names in Hungary
- slightly improves the graph functions, folder hierarchies and readability of the code
- contains full replication instructions in
HOWTOand in theREADMEfiles of each repository
The makefiles of this release take the zipped copies of the raw data into account, which makes it easier to rebuild the networks programmatically. The repository now includes the log of a script that runs through all country-specific modules to verify that the code does not break.
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v1.8 – Additional data and improvements
This release
- adds one additional legislature to Bulgaria and Hungary
- adds one additional legislature to Sweden and improves JSON parsing
- saves all data locally for Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy and Romania
- documents a critical issue with the scraper for Finland
- updates the data to August 2015 for all countries except Finland
- updates the code to the redesigned website of Iceland
- loses some package dependencies associated only to France
- improves the scraper for Italy (thanks to Jeroen Ooms for his help)
The repository now builds 120 networks from approximately 454 years of data.
The code for Italy contains various improvements to functions.r and to how variables are checked while assembling the sponsor datasets. These improvements will be propagated to all other repositories by the next release.