Applying Natural Language Processing to extract interesting features from legislation. Data from OpenStates.
Features will be used in the Swipe for Rights app, which will:
- Allow users to express support/opposition to legislation
- Help users understand the content of legislation
- Provide actionable ways that users can respond to legislation
- Topic modeling with bill text
- Predictive modeling for bill outcomes
- An OpenStates API key from https://openstates.org/api/register/, saved as
environment variable
OPENSTATES_API_KEY - pdftools to extract bill text
Create a conda environment and install required packages:
$ conda env create -f environment.yml
Activate the environment:
$ conda activate represent
This should be sufficient to run the scripts in py/ and notebooks in notebooks/.
Deactivate the conda environment:
$ conda deactivate
Remove the conda environment:
$ conda env remove --name represent