#4: United States Congress
Project Overview
The @unitedstates GitHub organization described itself as a "shared commons of data and tools for the United States. Made by the public, used by the public." Their most popular work is the congress-legislators collection of data, which contains every member "of the United States Congress (1789-Present), congressional committees (1973-Present), committee membership (current only), and presidents and vice presidents of the United States in YAML, JSON, and CSV format."
The dataset of currently serving Members of Congress, known as the legislators-current dataset, and we'll explore that dataset, specifically looking at the birthdays of members of Congress, across both the Senate and House of Representatives.
In this project, you'll both explore working with the date/time "data type" or "dtype" in pandas and create several exploratory data visualizations! Let's nerd out! 🎉
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