congress-political-spectrum

Visualize the ideological position of members of US Congress on a liberal/conservative spectrum, based on voting record.

Install & Run

1. Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/davhbrown/congress-political-spectrum.git
2. Create a new python environment if you wish, this was developed in python 3.9.12. Python 3.11+ is not supported.
3. pip install -r requirements.txt
4. cd ./congress-political-spectrum

Run with Bokeh server locally

From the command line: bokeh serve --show simple_spectrum.py

This will open a web browser and display the plots.

Data Source:

Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2024). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/