Participatory Budgeting Design for the Real World

Data description

The experiment data is structured in single xlsx file with 6 sheets.

Experiments:

Details about each instance

fields

EXP_ID - experiment ID

PARTICIPANT_ID - participant ID

CURTIME - When the experiment started

TUTORIAL_TIME - how long the tutorial stage took (seconds)

QUIZ_TIME - how long the quiz stage took (seconds)

RESPONSE_TIME - how long the voting stage took (seconds)

ISCONSISTENT - which of the consistency questions were answered correctly

FEEDBACK_EASE - survery feedback

FEEDBACK_INTERFACE - survery feedback

FEEDBACK_CAPTURE - survery feedback

FEEDBACK_MAP - survery feedback

FEEDBACK_CATEGORIES - survery feedback

FEEDBACK_MAP_ACCESS - survery feedback

INPUT_FORMAT - input format shown to the user

ELECTION_NUM - which election was shown (all types can be seen in Elections sheet)

CONSISTENCY_TIME - how long the consistency stage took (seconds)

TOTAL_TIME - how long the entire experiment took (seconds)

TOKEN - token given to the user when finishing the experiment

LOCATION_MAP - the coordinates of the user on the map

Valid_experiments:

Similar to Experiments, showing only "valid" experiments, i.e. removing experiments from tests and such.

Participants:

List of participants and their demographic information.

fields

PARTICIPANT_ID - participant ID

AGE - age

EDUCATION - level of education

GENDER - gender

Experiment items:

The vote for each experiment

fields

EXP_ID - experiment ID

ITEM_ID - project ID (corresponds to items sheet)

VALUE - 0/1 for approval, 0-100 for points, rank location for ranking

RANK_BEFORE (for rankings only) - rank of the project as shown to the user

RANK_AFTER(for rankings only) - rank of the project after the user changed it

Items

List of possible projects

fields

ITEM_ID - item ID

ITEM_NAME - name of the project

VALUE - cost of the project

DESCRIPTION - description of the project

GROUP_NAME - type of project (5 types)

SINGULAR - multiple location or one

Elections:

List of possible elections (in the experiment 3,6,7 and 8 were used)

fields

Election - election ID

ITEM_ID - project ID (corresponds to items sheet)

COORDS - coordinates of the project on the map

Citation

If you are using data from this repository, we kindly ask you to cite the following article.

@inproceedings{fairstein2023participatory,
  title={Participatory Budgeting Design for the Real World},
  author={Fairstein, Roy and Benade, Gerdus and Gal, Kobi},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year={2023}
}