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The dataset generation failed because of a cast error
Error code: DatasetGenerationCastError
Exception: DatasetGenerationCastError
Message: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 4 new columns ({'cHouse', 'hearingDate', 'cType', 'hid'}) and 17 missing columns ({'billStatus', 'bid', 'state', 'title', 'billState', 'finalVersionText', 'subject', 'leadAuthorFirst', 'house', 'origin', 'fileDate', 'leadAuthorLast', 'SponsorType', 'pid', 'leadAuthorParty', 'digest', 'nAuthors'}).
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
zip://DH2024_Corpus_Release/CA/2015-2016/CSV/committeeHearings.csv::/tmp/hf-datasets-cache/medium/datasets/69234392944181-config-parquet-and-info-iatpp-digitaldemocracy-20-7ceacb0d/downloads/faa04266165422adad1a0981f9af4a5576f0577871175137f03398f76ecfaffb
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2011, in _prepare_split_single
writer.write_table(table)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 585, in write_table
pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2302, in table_cast
return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2256, in cast_table_to_schema
raise CastError(
datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
hid: int64
hearingDate: string
cid: int64
cHouse: string
cName: string
cType: string
-- schema metadata --
pandas: '{"index_columns": [{"kind": "range", "name": null, "start": 0, "' + 922
to
{'bid': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'cid': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'house': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'cName': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'billState': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'billStatus': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'state': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'origin': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'subject': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'title': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'digest': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'finalVersionText': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'fileDate': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'pid': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'nAuthors': Value(dtype='int64', id=None), 'leadAuthorParty': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'SponsorType': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'leadAuthorLast': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'leadAuthorFirst': Value(dtype='string', id=None)}
because column names don't match
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1577, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1191, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2013, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationCastError.from_cast_error(
datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationCastError: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 4 new columns ({'cHouse', 'hearingDate', 'cType', 'hid'}) and 17 missing columns ({'billStatus', 'bid', 'state', 'title', 'billState', 'finalVersionText', 'subject', 'leadAuthorFirst', 'house', 'origin', 'fileDate', 'leadAuthorLast', 'SponsorType', 'pid', 'leadAuthorParty', 'digest', 'nAuthors'}).
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
zip://DH2024_Corpus_Release/CA/2015-2016/CSV/committeeHearings.csv::/tmp/hf-datasets-cache/medium/datasets/69234392944181-config-parquet-and-info-iatpp-digitaldemocracy-20-7ceacb0d/downloads/faa04266165422adad1a0981f9af4a5576f0577871175137f03398f76ecfaffb
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)Need help to make the dataset viewer work? Make sure to review how to configure the dataset viewer, and open a discussion for direct support.
bid string | cid int64 | house null | cName null | billState string | billStatus string | state string | origin string | subject string | title string | digest string | finalVersionText string | fileDate string | pid int64 | nAuthors int64 | leadAuthorParty string | SponsorType string | leadAuthorLast string | leadAuthorFirst string |
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CA_201520160AB1 | -1 | null | null | CA | Chaptered | CA | Assembly | Drought: local governments: fines. | An act to add Section 8627.7 to the Government Code, relating to water. | <p>The California Constitution requires that the water resources of the state be put to beneficial use to the fullest extent of which they are capable and that the waste or unreasonable use or unreasonable method of use of water be prevented. Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, sets forth the emergency... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_3BC0D3AA-9803-4E0E-AC07-BC4F1AC4F424"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:Content><p>The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:</p><p>(a)<span class="EnSpace"/>That this act is in furtheranc... | 2015-07-13 | 13 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Brown | Cheryl |
CA_201520160AB10 | -1 | null | null | CA | Died | CA | Assembly | Political Reform Act of 1974: economic interest disclosures. | An act to amend Sections 82033, 82034, 87103, 87206, and 87207 of, and to add Sections 87206.5 and 87211 to, the Government Code, relating to the Political Reform Act of 1974. | <p>(1)<span class="EnSpace"/>The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits a public official at any level of state or local government from making, participating in making, or in any way attempting to use his or her official position to influence a governmental decision in which the public official knows or has reason to ... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_D7531B3F-5C76-40EF-AC02-781A21DD20B9"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:GOV:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%4... | 2015-09-14 | 46 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Gatto | Mike |
CA_201520160AB1000 | -1 | null | null | CA | Chaptered | CA | Assembly | California State University: student success fees. | An act to repeal and add Section 89712 of the Education Code, relating to the California State University. | <p>Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law authorizes the trustees by rule to require all persons to pay fees, rents, deposits, and charges ... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_F2729A63-ED73-46FB-B528-51FF331EC6BF"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_REPEALED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:EDC:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%... | 2015-10-08 | 44 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Weber | Shirley |
CA_201520160AB1002 | -1 | null | null | CA | Chaptered | CA | Assembly | Civil actions: interpreter costs. | An act to amend Section 1033.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to civil actions. | <p>Existing law enumerates costs that a prevailing party in a civil action may recover. Existing law allows a prevailing party to recover court interpreter fees under specified conditions. Existing law also allows recovery of certain costs related to depositions.</p><p>This bill would allow a prevailing party to recove... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_AD016567-8176-4D03-9C9F-D548C092CEE0"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:CCP:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%4... | 2015-07-14 | 9 | 2 | Bipartisan | Individual | Multiple | Lead Authors |
CA_201520160AB1003 | -1 | null | null | CA | Died | CA | Assembly | Mental health: sexually violent predators. | An act to amend<span class="deletion"> Section 6604.9 of</span><span class="insertion"> Sections 6601 an 6604.9 of, and to add Section 6610 to,</span> the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health. | <p>Existing law provides for the civil commitment of criminal offenders who have been determined to be sexually violent predators for treatment in a secure state hospital facility, as specified. Existing law requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to refer a prisoner for evaluation by... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_DA37C444-8CE7-42DC-888C-9B91A30F1692"><caml:Num><span class="insertion">SECTION 1.</span></caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:WIC:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%... | 2015-04-22 | 36 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Nazarian | Adrin |
CA_201520160AB1004 | -1 | null | null | CA | Chaptered | CA | Assembly | California Tahoe Conservancy. | An act to amend Section 66907.8 of the Government Code, relating to the California Tahoe Conservancy. | <p>Existing law establishes the California Tahoe Conservancy within the Natural Resources Agency to, among other things, acquire, restore, and manage property, protect the natural environment, and preserve the scenic beauty and recreational opportunities of the Lake Tahoe region, as defined. Existing law authorizes the... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_8ABB1E5E-2544-44C6-B25A-B5319C032128"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:GOV:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%4... | 2015-08-10 | 47 | 1 | Republican | Individual | Dahle | Brian |
CA_201520160AB1006 | -1 | null | null | CA | Died | CA | Assembly | Prisoners: mental health treatment. | An act to add Chapter 16 (commencing with Section 1425) to Title 10 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, relating to prisoners. | <p>Existing law prohibits a person from being tried, adjudged to punishment, or having his or her probation, mandatory supervision, postrelease community supervision, or parole revoked while that person is mentally incompetent. Existing law establishes a process by which a defendants mental competency is evaluated and ... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_69D73031-DD19-402E-AEA8-96F9B94E5E11"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:Content><p>This act shall be known and may be cited as the Mental Health Justice Act.</p></caml:Content></caml:BillSection><caml:Bi... | 2015-04-21 | 8 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Levine | Marc |
CA_201520160AB1007 | -1 | null | null | CA | Died | CA | Assembly | Minimum wage. | An act<span class="insertion"> to amend Section 1182.12 of the Labor Code,</span> relating to minimum wage. | <p>Existing law sets the minimum wage for all industries at $9 per hour and, on January 1, 2016, raises the minimum wage for all industries to $10 per hour.</p><span class="deletion"><p>This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the minimum wage.</p></span><span class="insertio... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_23A48415-15F2-4FB2-8D65-DDD0E2CD9A7B"><caml:Num><span class="insertion">SECTION 1.</span></caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:LAB:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%... | 2015-03-26 | 20 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Stone | Mark |
CA_201520160AB1008 | -1 | null | null | CA | Chaptered | CA | Assembly | Public utilities: sale of hydrogen to public as a motor vehicle fuel. | An act to amend Section 216 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to public utilities. | <p>The Public Utilities Act provides that whenever any common carrier, toll bridge corporation, pipeline corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, water corporation, sewer system corporation, or heat corporation performs a service for, or delivers a commodity to... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_09D081FD-EBA6-477E-AE38-76C36C11B6F1"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:PUC:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%4... | 2015-07-15 | 23 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Quirk | Bill |
CA_201520160AB1009 | -1 | null | null | CA | Died | CA | Assembly | Local government: redevelopment: revenues from property tax override rates. | An act to amend Section 34183 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to local government, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. | <p>Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies. Existing law requires revenues equivalent to those that would have been allocated to each r... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_FD0E9FD7-FCF2-4A97-8F97-9B9842A795E7"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:Content><p>(a)<span class="EnSpace"/>The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:</p><p>(1)<span class="EnSpace"/>The C... | 2015-02-26 | 112 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Garcia | Cristina |
CA_201520160AB101 | -1 | null | null | CA | Vetoed | CA | Assembly | Pupil instruction: ethnic studies. | An act to add Section 51226.7 to the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction. | <p>Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include, among other subjects, the social sciences. Existing law requires the State Board of Education, with the assistance of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to establish a list of textbooks and other instructional materia... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_7FBCBC36-159C-4844-8A27-73EBC29966A1"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:Content><p>The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:</p><p>(a)<span class="EnSpace"/>The State of California is comm... | 2015-09-14 | 9 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Alejo | Luis |
CA_201520160AB1010 | -1 | null | null | CA | In Committee Process | CA | Assembly | Community colleges: part-time, temporary employees. | An act to add Section 87482.3 to the Education Code, relating to community colleges. | <p>(1)<span class="EnSpace"/>Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law authorizes the establishment of community college districts under the administration of community college governing boards, and au... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_3A6FDC92-A9E1-4CFE-9C44-9B2B63AEC0D5"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_ADDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:EDC:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2F%2Fcaml%3ALawSection%5Bc... | 2015-04-27 | 81 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Medina | Jose |
CA_201520160AB1011 | -1 | null | null | CA | Died | CA | Assembly | Department of Transportation: transfer of vacant property. | An act to add Section<span class="deletion"> 14673.12</span><span class="insertion"> 118.8</span> to the<span class="deletion"> Government</span><span class="insertion"> Streets and Highways</span> Code<span class="insertion">,</span> relating to state property. | <span class="deletion"><p>Under existing law the Department of General Services has various duties relating to state property.</p><p>This bill would require the Department of General Services, with the consent of the Department of Transportation, to relinquish specified property in the City of Los Angeles for use by th... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><span class="deletion"><caml:BillSection id="id_B80FEED0-49EF-4138-9C30-86175142DA88"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_ADDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:GOV:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2F%... | 2015-04-14 | 113 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | O'Donnell | Patrick |
CA_201520160AB1012 | -1 | null | null | CA | Chaptered | CA | Assembly | Pupil instruction: course periods without educational content. | An act to add Sections 51228.1, 51228.2, and 51228.3 to the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction. | <p>(1)<span class="EnSpace"/>Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary education in this state, and requires and authorizes local educational agencies to provide specified instruction at elementary and secondary schools. Existing law prescribes various requirements with respect to a course of... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_A2A2A66D-39CD-4D22-906B-77CFD88CDD9C"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_ADDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:EDC:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2F%2Fcaml%3ALawSection%5Bc... | 2015-10-09 | 87 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Jones-Sawyer | Reginald |
CA_201520160AB1013 | -1 | null | null | CA | In Committee Process | CA | Assembly | Energy: public domain computer program: home energy rating. | An act to amend Sections 25402.1 and 25942 of the Public Resources Code, relating to energy. | <p>(1)<span class="EnSpace"/>Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to prescribe, by regulation, lighting, insulation climate control system, and other building design and construction standards that increase the efficiency in the use of energy and water for new residen... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_EB84B97B-BC06-4A15-8B1C-ADC237832437"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:PRC:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%4... | 2015-06-19 | 23 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Quirk | Bill |
CA_201520160AB1015 | -1 | null | null | CA | Chaptered | CA | Assembly | Parking: car share vehicles. | An act to amend Section 22507.1 of the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles. | <p>Existing law provides that the Vehicle Code is applicable and uniform throughout the state and in all counties and municipalities, and prohibits a local authority from enacting or enforcing an ordinance or resolution on those matters covered by the Vehicle Code unless expressly authorized by that code. Existing law ... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_790F9D00-2BC7-4A47-98CB-17B70E17D1DB"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:VEH:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%4... | 2015-07-02 | 2 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Bloom | Richard |
CA_201520160AB1016 | -1 | null | null | CA | Chaptered | CA | Assembly | Public postsecondary education: Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act. | An act to add Section 66749.5 to the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education. | <p>Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges and the California State University as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law, the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, encourages community colleges to facilitate the acceptance of credits earned at other communi... | <caml:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</caml:Preamble><caml:BillSection id="id_D67817A2-22E5-4548-AB92-7E19F6B51A4F"><caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:ActionLine action="IS_ADDED" xlink:href="urn:caml:codes:EDC:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2F%2Fcaml%3ALawSection%5Bc... | 2015-10-02 | 17 | 1 | Democrat | Individual | Santiago | Miguel |
End of preview.
This corpus is distributed under the cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 license. Please review before accessing. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Please cite as:
Khosmood, F., Dekhtyar, A., Ellwein, S., White, B., "The Digital Democracy Corpus: Comprehensive Proceedings of Four State Legislatures 2015-2018", Digital Humanities, Washington, DC, August 2024.
CONTENT
This a corpus of a comprehensive proceedings of the state legislature in four largest US States: California, Texas, New York and Florida. It contains two full sessions for California (2015-2016 and 2017-2018 sessions) and for the other three states only the 2017-2018 session. The proceedings are mainly transcripts of what was said in public committee hearings of the legislature including floor sessions. They were developed from videos released by the legislature, but they were transcribed and annotated by the project. In addition to the speeches, speaker identities, committees, bills, sessions, hearings and links to hosted videos are provided. The format of the corpus is a series of CSV files closely resembling relational database tables of utterances, people, committees, bills, hearings, discussions and videos. The corpus contains over 1.6 Million speeches spoken by about 116,000 individually identified speakers in four states. The data is over 1.66GB uncompressed.
COLUMN IDS
A short explanation of column names for all 9 CSV files is provided here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QJA9OkhLQQVduc3FD532N0h1e5a3Z7lYIfQs7Ex2Op4/edit?usp=sharing
QUALITY
While no formal assessment of the content quality has been published, this corpus is considered of the highest quality mainly because every auto-transcribed utterance was subsequently verified and edited for quality and annotated by people trained and employed by the project. Unfortuantely since unlike the US Federal Government, none of the 50 states produce official transcript records, there's no way to verify against an authoritive source, and there are no other projects that have produced the same data.
BRIEF HISTORY
This corpus was developed by the Cal Poly Institute for Advanced Technology and Public Policy as part of the "Digital Democracy" government transparency project 2015-2018. The key individuals were Sen. Sam Blakeslee (former California Senate minority leader and founder of IATPP), Christine Robertson (Sam's chief of staff and designer of the project), Hans Poschman (IATPP staff and former legislative staff), Toshihiro Kuboi (Software Engineer), Thomas Gerrity (Software Engineer) and Cal Poly Computer Science Professors Foaad Khosmood (NLP), Alex Dekhtyar (Databases and Data Science), Franz Kurfess (AI) and Davide Falessi (Software Engineering). Help and consultation was also provided by Dr. Michael Latner (Political Science) and Pat Howe (Journalism). Dozens of Cal Poly students in Computing and Liberal Arts also made valuable contributions during this period. The project was a web-accessible portal (digitaldemocracy.org) where citizens of each state could search the records, browse hearings, bills, votes and donations, and view auto-synched videos with transripts. However live data gathering and transcription was expensive to maintain and the project's public service mission did not allow for monetization, so the project was halted by December 2018. But research continued on the same concepts involving Cal Poly students and visitors from Graz University of Technology, Munich University of Applied Sciences and University of Miami. Special thanks to Professors Christian Guetl (Graz), Gudrun Socher (Munich) and Lindsay Grace (Miami) and students Thorsten Ruprechter, Anastasia Klimashevskaya, Michelle Perkonigg, Alexander Ehm, Sasha Prostota, Katy Huang. The project was revived by 2022 and became part of the nonprofit news agency CalMatters, covering the California 2023-2024 legislative session (https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org). A new UI was created by 10UP. More information, financial and news data was integrated into the public facing site and a new tool "AI TipSheets" was created to help reporters cover the legislature better.
GOOGLE COLAB
We have created a Google Colab that demonstrates some basic operations such as downloading and reading in the data and displaying full transcripts https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1RkV4bvbjJmHG5VEznZjndZKU_8XYyZGH?usp=sharing
CONTACTS
IATPP https://iatpp.calpoly.edu
Foaad Khosmood https://foaad.net (foaad -at- calpoly -dot- edu)
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