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add names-current-term.csv #3
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Should this be all people in the current term? Or just all current members? |
My hunch is that a naive user will expect the latter. |
It's hard to know without a use case. My feeling is it's always going to be a little fuzzy because of latency between real life and data anyway, so just current term is a start. shrugs |
Well, we could of course create both versions. But that seems more likely to just be confusing. Perhaps @pudo or @jpmckinney might have an opinion on this? |
Ok, first off: this sounds like a tremendously useful feature for EveryPolitician, I'd really like to use it. For my use case -- which is finding mentions of politicians in documents and databases -- I'd actually prefer the term members over the current members. That gives me a bit of extra coverage. Perhaps the former member had to resign over a scandal -- in that case I want to track them a bit longer :) |
Further to my throwaway comment:
...I now notice that in fact |
If you wanted to perform analysis over only current members (e.g. gender analysis), then you'd need the current members version. In lots of journalism use cases, however, the current term version is more relevant, as it matters if a member doesn't make it to end of term. So, yeah, I think both are useful. |
The corollary to that is perhaps that we've already made this decision insomuch as the |
The big list of all the names of all politicians ever is impressive, but it's possible that a similar file that only contains politicians from all legislatures' current terms would be more useful for some more timely applications.
There's no specific use case for this, just a speculative idea that it might make the data more useful (that big file is cumbersome). Note that for specific legislatures, EveryPolitician already publishes a handy names.csv file (URL included in the
countries.json
index file).It seems likely that the overhead to creating this as part of the creation of the megainclusive
names.csv
might be relatively low, so worth trying.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: