This repository consists of speeches data used in the working paper Political Metaphors in U.S. Governor Speeches (L. Picard & D. Stammbach)
dataset_parsed.csv contains 1,296 State of the State speeches from U.S. governors, between 1995 and 2022. Raw text files and metadata are also provided.
speech_parser.py contains the code to append all text files, merges it with metadata.csv, then stores the output in dataset_parsed.csv. As a preprocessing step, I only delete new lines \n and tabulations \t.
List of variables from dataset_parsed.csv:
| Variable | Definition |
|---|---|
file_id |
Name of the text file from speeches_raw/ |
state_id |
U.S. State unique identifier (ISO 2-digit) |
state_name |
U.S. State official name |
year |
Year of elocution |
speaker |
Speaker name |
party |
Speaker political party (democratic/republican/other) |
type |
Type of speech (sots/sotu/budg/inaug/other) |
quality |
Transcript quality (as prepared/ocr/quotes/bulletpoints/youtube cc) |
text |
Parsed speech |
source |
URL link |