{"id":2453,"date":"2013-05-04T11:58:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T15:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.prattsils.org\/infovis\/?p=9"},"modified":"2013-05-04T11:58:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T15:58:52","slug":"does-congress-ever-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/visualization\/does-congress-ever-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Congress Ever Listen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to measure the success of a movement as massive as Occupy Wall Street. Did they succeed? Did they change the world? I wanted to explore the idea that some of their rhetoric– the cries of the 99%– may have crept into lawmaker’s political discourse, and that could be one measure of success. <\/p>\n

Using the Capitol Words API, I text-mined the Congressional Record for mentions of the most important words to the Occupy Movement, and compared this data to Congress’ overall rhetoric. I looked at September – December 2011 and compared it to the baseline years of 2007 and 2009. <\/p>\n

This tree map shows what Congress spends its time talking about, and how many words they devote to the issues of the Occupy Movement and the 99%. Track the changes in Congressional rhetoric from 2007-2011.<\/p>\n

Mouse over any rectangle to see how frequently a word appeared in the Congressional Record during a particular month. Words with an asterisk appear in both the Top 100 Words in the Congressional Record for a given month and in Occupy Wall Street’s top rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Are We Speaking the Same Language? Visualizing the Impact of the Occupy Movement through Rhetoric<\/b><\/p>\n

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If the embed isn’t working, click here<\/a> for a better view in Tableau.<\/p>\n

Here’s an alternate view of the same data, that shows the frequency of Occupy words (in red and pink) against the greater stream of Congressional discourse.<\/p>\n

\"Word-Cloud-by-Year-clip\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To see the word cloud over all three years click here<\/a> or download a high res PDF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Data Sources:
\nOccupy Rhetoric comes from Occupy Data NYC<\/a> and Mike Konczal<\/a> (rortybomb)
\nThe Top 100 words (by TFIDF and count) are pulled from the Congressional Record using the Capitol Words API<\/a>
\nDownload my data<\/a> in XLSX format. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does Congress ever listen? Visualizing the rhetoric of Congress during the Occupy Wall Street movement to see whether the words of the 99% made it to Capitol Hill. Data pulled from the Capitol Words API.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,9,10,11,12,13],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visualization","tag-information-visualization","tag-occupy-wall-street","tag-politics","tag-rhetoric","tag-tree-map","tag-word-cloud"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paBdcV-Dz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infovis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}