Congressional Voting Records
Donated on 4/26/1987
1984 United Stated Congressional Voting Records; Classify as Republican or Democrat
Dataset Characteristics
Multivariate
Subject Area
Social Science
Associated Tasks
Classification
Feature Type
Categorical
# Instances
435
# Features
16
Dataset Information
Additional Information
This data set includes votes for each of the U.S. House of Representatives Congressmen on the 16 key votes identified by the CQA. The CQA lists nine different types of votes: voted for, paired for, and announced for (these three simplified to yea), voted against, paired against, and announced against (these three simplified to nay), voted present, voted present to avoid conflict of interest, and did not vote or otherwise make a position known (these three simplified to an unknown disposition).
Has Missing Values?
Yes
Variables Table
| Variable Name | Role | Type | Description | Units | Missing Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class | Target | Categorical | no | ||
| handicapped-infants | Feature | Categorical | yes | ||
| water-project-cost-sharing | Feature | Categorical | yes | ||
| adoption-of-the-budget-resolution | Feature | Categorical | yes | ||
| physician-fee-freeze | Feature | Categorical | yes | ||
| el-salvador-aid | Feature | Categorical | yes | ||
| religious-groups-in-schools | Feature | Categorical | yes | ||
| anti-satellite-test-ban | Feature | Categorical | yes | ||
| aid-to-nicaraguan-contras | Feature | Categorical | yes | ||
| mx-missile | Feature | Categorical | yes |
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Additional Variable Information
1. Class Name: 2 (democrat, republican) 2. handicapped-infants: 2 (y,n) 3. water-project-cost-sharing: 2 (y,n) 4. adoption-of-the-budget-resolution: 2 (y,n) 5. physician-fee-freeze: 2 (y,n) 6. el-salvador-aid: 2 (y,n) 7. religious-groups-in-schools: 2 (y,n) 8. anti-satellite-test-ban: 2 (y,n) 9. aid-to-nicaraguan-contras: 2 (y,n) 10. mx-missile: 2 (y,n) 11. immigration: 2 (y,n) 12. synfuels-corporation-cutback: 2 (y,n) 13. education-spending: 2 (y,n) 14. superfund-right-to-sue: 2 (y,n) 15. crime: 2 (y,n) 16. duty-free-exports: 2 (y,n) 17. export-administration-act-south-africa: 2 (y,n)
Baseline Model Performance
Dataset Files
| File | Size |
|---|---|
| house-votes-84.data | 17.7 KB |
| house-votes-84.names | 6.7 KB |
| Index | 135 Bytes |
Papers Citing this Dataset
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By Andy Shih, Arthur Choi, Adnan Darwiche. 2018
Published in ArXiv.
By Christoph Waldhauser, Ronald Hochreiter. 2017
Published in ITM Web of Conferences.
By Micheal Pawliuk, Michael Waddell. 2017
Published in Axioms.
By Frederic Sala, Shahroze Kabir, Guy Broeck, Lara Dolecek. 2017
Published in ArXiv.
By Cetin Savkli, Jeffrey Lin, Philip Graff, Matthew Kinsey. 2017
Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN 17). The Steering Committee of The World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WorldComp). 2017.
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pip install ucimlrepo
from ucimlrepo import fetch_ucirepo # fetch dataset congressional_voting_records = fetch_ucirepo(id=105) # data (as pandas dataframes) X = congressional_voting_records.data.features y = congressional_voting_records.data.targets # metadata print(congressional_voting_records.metadata) # variable information print(congressional_voting_records.variables)
Congressional Voting Records [Dataset]. (1987). UCI Machine Learning Repository. https://doi.org/10.24432/C5C01P.
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