Debate Data for DART

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I have data on all finished debates (columns mentioned below) in a CSV format. Send me a PM with your email if you want it (or you can figure out another way). I also have some graphs and analysis I did with R, if you want that, tell me as well.



For Scraping:

I used a (VERY simple) BS4 based webscraper to scrape debate "stat" data from ALL finished debates. This stat data is the stuff you see under a debate in the debate list:
  • Amount of arguments (7/8, 2/2, 6/6)
  • Amount of comments
  • Amount of votes
(Let me know if you want me to scrape more data from debates: debate name, debate instigators, debate contenders are all possible)

For the Data:

It's in a CSV format.

The specific columns are:
  •  Completed Arguments
  • Total Arguments
  • Proportion of Arguments
  • Comments
  • Votes

For Analysis:

There were a few interesting things I found with R:
  • The mean of votes on debates that have a forfeit is double the number of votes on debates that don't have a forfeit.
  • A majority of debates have at least one forfeit.
  • Zero-vote debates make up 6% of all debates.
  • The largest number of comments on a single debate is 384. The largest number of votes on a single debate is 27.
  • I suck at statistics (and R)



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Send me a PM with your email if you want it (or you can figure out another way). I also have some graphs and analysis I did with R, if you want that, tell me as well.
Update:

You don't need to do that anymore. The GitHub repo is here: KevinH45/DARTScraper (github.com)


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Wow, that's some interesting stuff 
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Thanks!