Examining POTUS Executive Orders by Bob Rudis.
From the post:
This week’s edition of Data is Plural had two really fun data sets. One is serious fun (the first comprehensive data set on U.S. evictions, and the other I knew about but had forgotten: The Federal Register Executive Order (EO) data set(s).
The EO data is also comprehensive as the summary JSON (or CSV) files have links to more metadata and even more links to the full-text in various formats.
What follows is a quick post to help bootstrap folks who may want to do some tidy text mining on this data. We’ll look at EOs-per-year (per-POTUS) and also take a look at the “top 5 ‘first words’” in the titles of the EOS (also by POTUS).
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My estimate of the importance of executive orders by American Presidents, “Tweets < Executive Orders < Cern Data,” is only an approximation.
Rudis leaves you plenty of room to experiment with R and processing the text of executive orders.
Enjoy!