SixFifty Data Pipeline

ETL data pipeline for SixFifty modelling & analytics.

SixFifty Datasets

Raw

Dataset	Date	Format	Source	Licence	Download URL	Repo Path
UK Parliament general election results	6th May 2010	XLS	Electoral Commission	Open Government Licence v2.0	GE2010-results-flatfile-website.xls	/data/general_election/electoral_commission/results/
UK Parliament general election results	7th May 2015	CSV - Zip file	Electoral Commission	Open Government Licence v2.0	2015-UK-general-election-data-results-WEB.zip	/data/general_election/electoral_commission/results/
EU Referendum results	23rd June 2016	CSV	Electoral Commission	Open Government Licence v2.0	EU-referendum-result-data.csv	/data/eu_referendum/electoral_commission/results/

Processed

We aim to provide our processed datasets in both CSV and Feather formats.

Dataset	Description	Download URL	Repo Path
ge_2010_results	Cleaner version of 2010 GE data	CSV, Feather	data/general_election/electoral_commission/results/clean/ge_2010_results.csv
ge_2015_results	Cleaner version of 2015 GE data	CSV, Feather	data/general_election/electoral_commission/results/clean/ge_2015_results.csv
model_2015	Clean version of 2015 GE data along with counties and EU Referendum results at a regional level	CSV, Feather	data/model/clean/model_2015.csv

UK Political Polling

A manually curated set of poll results can be downloaded in a variety of formats. See data/polls/ for more information including a data dictionary.

• Download as JSON
• Download as CSV
• Download as Feather

BBC Debate Logs

Created by SixFifty, includes timestamps of when each person was speaking and for how long. See data/bbcdebate/speakers/ for more information including a data dictionary.

• Download as CSV

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Filling this repo with data (short version)

1. Check you're running Python 3.
2. Ensure you have the Python requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Then cd into the repo root (where this README is located) and run the following to download, populate this repo with data and auto-clean it ready for modelling:

python data/generate_data.py

Filling this repo with data (detailed setup instructions)

Please see these instructions on installing Anaconda + dependencies + configuring S3 tokens.

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Licences

Name	Description	Attribution Statement
Open Parliament Licence	Free to copy, publish, distribute, transmit, adapt and exploit commercially or non-commercially. See URL for full details.	Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
Open Government Licence	Free to copy, publish, distribute, transmit, adapt and exploit commercially and non-commercially. See URL for full details.	Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0.