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Rank TDs by number of votes participated in 2019 Using the Houses of the Oireachtas Open Data APIs
name: rank-td-by-dail-votes-2019
channels:
- conda-forge
dependencies:
- python
- pip
- pip:
- pandas
- matplotlib
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"# Rank TDs by number of votes participated in 2019\n",
"## Using the Houses of the Oireachtas Open Data APIs"
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"def sort_tds_by_vote_count(all_dail_votes):\n",
" vote_types = ['nilVotes', 'staonVotes', 'taVotes']\n",
" tds_votes_dict = {}\n",
" \n",
" for result in all_dail_votes:\n",
" for vote_type in vote_types:\n",
" for memberWrapper in result['division']['tallies'][vote_type]['members']:\n",
" member = memberWrapper['member']\n",
" memberCode = member['memberCode']\n",
" if memberCode in tds_votes_dict:\n",
" tds_votes_dict[memberCode]['voteCount'] += 1\n",
" else:\n",
" tds_votes_dict[memberCode] = {\n",
" 'name': member['showAs'],\n",
" 'voteCount': 1\n",
" }\n",
"\n",
" return sorted(\n",
" tds_votes_dict.values(),\n",
" key = lambda entry: entry['voteCount'],\n",
" reverse=True)"
]
},
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"source": [
"import requests\n",
"import json\n",
"import pandas as pd\n",
"import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n",
"%matplotlib inline\n",
"\n",
"params = {\n",
" 'chamber_type': 'house',\n",
" 'chamber_id': 'https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/house/dail/32',\n",
" 'chamber': 'dail',\n",
" 'date_start': '2019-01-01',\n",
" 'date_end': '2019-12-31',\n",
" 'limit': '10000'\n",
"}\n",
"r = requests.get('https://api.oireachtas.ie/v1/divisions', params=params)\n",
"all_dail_votes = r.json()['results']\n",
"\n",
"sorted_tds_by_vote_count = sort_tds_by_vote_count(all_dail_votes)\n",
" \n",
"df = pd.DataFrame(sorted_tds_by_vote_count)\n",
"df.set_index(\"name\",drop=True,inplace=True) \\\n",
"\n",
"df.sort_values(by='voteCount', ascending=True) \\\n",
" .plot.barh(figsize=(10, 80))"
]
}
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