Congress Stock Trades

Data publication and documentation for a project on Congress Members' stock trades and committee assignments

Project goal

Identify which members of Congress have similarities between their committee assignments and their stock trades.

Some Questions to Answer:

• Which members of Congress have frequent stock trades in industries that committees they are on have jurisdiction over?
• Which members of Congress have stock trades of significant amounts in industries that committees they are on have jurisdiction over?

Project notes

Notebooks

• congress-stock-trades-committees-merge.ipynb merges Members of Congress' stock trade info with Members' subcommittee assignments using a string algorithm
• Stock-Watchers-Categories.ipynb combines Senate and House Stockwatcher data with stock descriptions from the YFinance Module
• Congress-Committee-Assignments.ipynb extracts each member of Congress' committeee assignments from a nested JSON file
• YFinance-scratchpad.ipynb explores the YFinance module to understand the type of information one can access for stock tickers
• Stock-Watchers-Scratchpad.ipynb explores the Stock Watcher data
• string-algorithms-scratchpad.ipynb explores different string algorithms to practice

Data sources

• Senate Stock Watcher API: https://senatestockwatcher.com/api
• House Stock Watcher API: https://housestockwatcher.com/api
• Yahoo Finance data via YFinance Ticker Module: https://pypi.org/project/yfinance/
• Committee Assignments: https://theunitedstates.io/congress-legislators/committee-membership-current.json
• Committee Descriptions: Handmade dataset from committees' .gov sites with some exceptions
• Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) https://www.msci.com/our-solutions/indexes/gics

Technical

TBD

Data notes

TBD