README.md

---
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
  - en
  - zh
  - de
tags:
  - deliberation
  - democracy
  - polis
  - votes
  - habermas-machine
  - collective-dialogue
pretty_name: Open Deliberation
configs:
  - config_name: text_corpus
    data_files: text/deliberation_combined.csv
    default: true
  - config_name: polis_votes
    data_files:
      - split: comments
        path: polis_votes/*/comments.csv
      - split: votes
        path: polis_votes/*/votes.csv
      - split: summary
        path: polis_votes/*/summary.csv
---

# Open Deliberation

Two related releases in one dataset repo:

| Config | What it is | Vote-preserving? | Size |
|--------|------------|------------------|------|
| `text_corpus` | Pruned multi-source **text** (Polis comments + Habermas + OpenAI Remesh) | **No** — only optional agree/disagree tallies in `extra` | ~1.8 MB |
| `polis_votes` | Polis **comments + votes + summary** per conversation | **Yes** — participant×comment vote matrix | ~lean pack |

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

text = load_dataset("jonaskg/open-deliberation", "text_corpus")
votes = load_dataset("jonaskg/open-deliberation", "polis_votes")
```

## Why two configs?

Polis’s power is the **vote matrix**: each participant voting agree/disagree/pass on each comment, which enables PCA opinion-group maps. A text-only export loses that geometry.  
`text_corpus` is for NLP / scenario / mediation research.  
`polis_votes` is for computational social choice and opinion-map replication.

## `text_corpus` columns

`source`, `corpus`, `record_type`, `topic`, `question`, `text`, `stance_or_label`, `agreement_pct`, `extra`

Sources: Polis comments (CC BY 4.0), Habermas Machine (*Science* 2024), OpenAI Democratic Inputs / Remesh.

## `polis_votes` layout

```
polis_votes/<conversation_id>/
  comments.csv
  votes.csv
  summary.csv
```

Lean conversations included (vote matrices for March On and the largest Austria Klimarat dumps omitted to keep the release downloadable). Case study index: [compdemocracy.org](https://compdemocracy.org/).

## Attribution (Polis)

Data was gathered using the Polis software (compdemocracy.org/polis) and is sub-licensed under CC BY 4.0 with Attribution to The Computational Democracy Project.

## Notes

- Not an endorsement of political positions in the data.
- Habermas / Remesh appear only in `text_corpus`.