Senator Information Data — twitter.senator • qss

Contains information about each US Senator in the Twitter network analysis from QSS Section 5.2.3.

twitter.senator

Format

A data frame with 91 rows and 4 variables:

screen_name: character: Twitter screen name
name: character: name of senator
party: character: party (D = Democrat, R = Republican, I = Independent)
state: character: state abbreviation

Details

See QSS Table 5.4.

References

Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.
Pablo Barberá; Birds of the Same Feather Tweet Together: Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation Using Twitter Data. Political Analysis 2015; 23 (1): 76-91. doi: 10.1093/pan/mpu011