USA Facts organized a Hackathon to collect data on environmental legislation. I contributed by collecting and cleaning data on state environmental legislation. The final dataset is saved here: all_state_leg_cleaned.csv. It contains the following variables:
leg_id: legislation id (states can be identified using the state acronym)leg_title: title of legislationleg_author: main author and additional authorsleg_status: status of legislationleg_summary: summary of legislationleg_topics: topics of legislationhistory: steps taken by legislation (one row per step) --- they are ordered using thehistory_seqvariablehistory_seq: step numbers for thehistoryvariableyear
The R code used to clean the raw files is called clean_up_script.