Greek Parliament Proceedings, 1989-2020

<p>This dataset is produced on behalf of <a href="http://www.imedd.org/">iMEdD</a> by PhD Student in Machine Learning <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3395-2182">Konstantina Dritsa</a>, with the contribution of data journalist and <a href="https://lab.imedd.org/">iMEdD Lab</a> Project Manager <a href="https://devlab.imedd.org/lab-author/%ce%ba%ce%ad%ce%bb%ce%bb%cf%85-%ce%ba%ce%b9%ce%ba%ce%ae/">Kelly Kiki</a>. iMEdD (incubator for Media Education and Development) is a non-profit journalism organisation that supports and promotes transparency, credibility and independence in journalism. Lab is iMEdD&rsquo;s content production division which publishes original interactive investigative and data-driven stories by experimenting with new forms and tools in journalism.&nbsp;</p> <p>This dataset is the next version of a<a href="https://zenodo.org/record/2587904#.X7fMx80zaUn"> previous upload</a>, which originated from the work implemented during the course of the Master thesis entitled &quot;<a href="http://www.pyxida.aueb.gr/index.php?op=view_object&amp;object_id=6387">Speech quality and sentiment analysis on the Hellenic Parliament proceedings</a>&quot; at the Athens University of Economics &amp; Business in 2018 under the supervision of the Associate Professor <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3971-4612">Panagiotis Louridas</a>.</p> <p>This dataset includes 1,280,918 speeches (rows) of Greek parliament members with a total volume of 2.4 GB, that were exported from 5,355 parliamentary sitting record files. They extend chronologically from 1989 up to late July 2020. The dataset consists of a .csv file in UTF-8 encoding and includes the following columns of data:</p> <ul> <li> <p><strong>member_name</strong>: the official name of the parliament member who talked during a sitting.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>sitting_date</strong>: the date that the sitting took place.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>parliamentary_period</strong>: the name and/or number of the parliamentary period that the speech took place in. A parliamentary period includes multiple parliamentary sessions.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>parliamentary_session</strong>: the name and/or number of the parliamentary session that the speech took place in. A parliamentary session includes multiple parliamentary sittings.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>parliamentary_sitting</strong>: the name and/or number of the parliamentary sitting that the speech took place in.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>political_party</strong>: the political party that the speaker belonged to the moment of their speech.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>government</strong>: the government in force when the speech took place.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>member_region</strong>: the electoral district the speaker belonged to.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>roles</strong>: information about the parliamentary roles and/or government position of the speaker the moment of their speech.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>member_gender</strong>: the sex of the speaker</p> </li> <li> <p><strong>speech</strong>: the speech that the member made during the parliamentary sitting</p> </li> </ul> <p>The methodology followed for the production of this dataset is described in the iMEdD Lab&#39;s article entitled &quot;<a href="https://devlab.imedd.org/i-dimiourgia-tou-dataset-me-ta-koinovouleftika-praktika/">The creation of a dataset with the parliament proceedings within 31 years</a>&quot;. Scripts and relevant documentation are available on <a href="https://github.com/iMEdD-Lab/Greek_Parliament_Proceedings">GitHub</a>. &nbsp;</p>