Keyword counts from US Presidential State of the Union Addresses and Presidential Budget Messages
<p>Keyword counts from US Presidential State of the Union Addresses and Presidential Budget Messages. This was done using the Python scripts provided under <a href="https://github.com/JeremySilver/KeywordCountsPresidentialMessages">https://github.com/JeremySilver/KeywordCountsPresidentialMessages</a>. The raw text data is from <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/">The American Presidency Project</a> (<a href="http://www.ucsb.edu/">UCSB</a>), with some Presidential Budget Messages being extracted from US Federal Budget documents available through <a href="https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/">FRASER</a> (a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history) or, for the more recent documents the website of the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/">White House</a>.</p> <p>The data headings are:</p> <ul> <li>pid: in most cases, this is the index for the text document as archived on <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/">The American Presidency Project</a> website. In some cases, this was the filename of a plain-text file read directly.</li> <li>year: Year that the message was delivered.</li> <li>date: Date that the message was delivered.</li> <li>name: Name of the US President delivering the message.</li> <li>count_of_all_words: Count of all words in the document.</li> <li>count_of_keywords: Count of all keywords encountered in that document.</li> <li>Keyword specific columns - three per keyword. For example, for the 'energy' keyword, the 'energy' column gives the number of times the 'energy' keyword was counted in the message, 'energy_pct_of_keywords' gives this count as a percentage of all keywords, and 'energy_pct_of_all_words' gives this count as a percentage of all words</li> </ul> <p>Below is the list of keywords that match when the search is applied to a dictionary file containing over 99,000 US English words.</p> <ul> <li>energy: 'energy'</li> <li>tax: 'nontaxable', 'overtax', 'overtaxed', 'overtaxes', 'overtaxing', 'surtax', 'surtaxed', 'surtaxes', 'surtaxing', 'surtaxs', 'tax', 'taxable', 'taxation', 'taxations', 'taxed', 'taxes', 'taxing', 'taxpayer', 'taxpayers', 'taxs'</li> <li>defense: 'defend', 'defense'</li> <li>education: 'education'</li> <li>employment: 'employ', 'employable', 'employe', 'employed', 'employee', 'employees', 'employer', 'employers', 'employes', 'employing', 'employment', 'employments', 'employs', 'underemployed', 'unemployable', 'unemployed', 'unemployeds', 'unemployment', 'unemployments'</li> <li>research: 'research', 'researched', 'researcher', 'researchers', 'researches', 'researching', 'researchs'</li> <li>shooting: 'shooting'</li> <li>space: 'space'</li> <li>nuclear: 'nuclear'</li> <li>natural resources: 'natural resources'</li> <li>racism: 'racism', 'civil rights'</li> <li>crime: 'crime', 'crimes', 'criminal', 'criminally', 'criminals', 'decriminalization', 'decriminalizations', 'decriminalize', 'decriminalized', 'decriminalizes', 'decriminalizing'</li> <li>environment: 'environment', 'environmental', 'environmentalism', 'environmentalisms', 'environmentalist', 'environmentalists', 'environmentally', 'environments'</li> <li>religion: 'faith', 'god', 'prayer', 'religion'</li> <li>health: 'health', 'healthful', 'healthfully', 'healthfulness', 'healthfulnesss', 'healthier', 'healthiest', 'healthily', 'healthiness', 'healthinesss', 'healths', 'healthy', 'unhealthful', 'unhealthier', 'unhealthiest', 'unhealthy'</li> <li>terror: 'terror', 'terrorism', 'terrorisms', 'terrorist', 'terrorists', 'terrorize', 'terrorized', 'terrorizes', 'terrorizing', 'terrors'</li> <li>war: 'war', 'warrior', 'warriors', 'wars'</li> <li>economy: 'economic', 'economical', 'economically', 'economics', 'economicss', 'economy', 'economys', 'microeconomics', 'microeconomicss', 'socioeconomic', 'uneconomic', 'uneconomical'</li> <li>jobs: 'jobs'</li> <li>business: 'agribusiness', 'agribusinesses', 'agribusinesss', 'business', 'businesses', 'businesslike', 'businessman', 'businessmans', 'businessmen', 'businesss', 'businesswoman', 'businesswomans', 'businesswomen'</li> <li>drugs: 'drugs', 'narcotics'</li> <li>inflation: 'inflation'</li> <li>climate: 'climate'</li> <li>science: 'science', 'sciences', 'scientific', 'scientifically', 'scientist', 'scientists'</li> <li>gun: 'gun', 'gunfire', 'gunman', 'guns', 'handgun', 'rifle', 'shotgun'</li> <li>tech: 'biotechnology', 'biotechnologys', 'technical', 'technological', 'technologically', 'technologies', 'technologist', 'technologists', 'technology', 'technologys'</li> <li>military: 'military'</li> <li>security: 'security'</li> <li>housing: 'housing'</li> <li>pollution: 'pollution'</li> </ul> <p>The dictionary file used is a standard file among Linux systems, and the version used was provided with version 7.1-1 of the Ubuntu 'wamerican' package. Two extra phrases, which do not appear in the dictionary file, are added to the list: 'civil rights' (under the 'racism' keyword) and 'natural resources' (under the 'natural resources' theme).</p>
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