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Congressional Voting Records data set

Description
Files and additional references

Description

This section describes main characteristics of the housevotes data set and its attributes:

General information

Congressional Voting Records data set
Type	Classification	Origin	Real world
Features	16	(Real / Integer / Nominal)	(0 / 0 / 16)
Classes	2	Missing values?	Yes
Total instances	435	Instances without missing values	232

Attribute description

Attribute	Domain	Attribute	Domain
Handicapped_infants	{y,n}	Mx_missile	{y,n}
Water_project_cost	{y,n}	Immigration	{y,n}
Adoption_budget_resolution	{y,n}	Synfuels_corporation_cutback	{y,n}
Physician_fee_freeze	{y,n}	Education_spending	{y,n}
El_salvador_aid	{y,n}	Superfund_right_to_sue	{y,n}
Religious_groups_in_schools	{y,n}	Crime	{y,n}
Anti_satellite_test_ban	{y,n}	Duty_free_exports	{y,n}
Aid_to_nicaraguan_contras	{y,n}	Export_south_africa	{y,n}
Class	{republican,democrat}

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).

Files and additional references

In this section you can download some files related to the housevotes data set:

The complete data set already formatted in KEEL formatcan be downloaded from here .
A copy of the data set already partitioned by means of a 10-folds cross validation procedure can be downloaded from here .
A copy of the data set already partitioned by means of a 5-folds cross validation procedure can be downloaded from here .
The header file associated to this data set can be downloaded from here .
This is not a native data set from the KEEL project. It has been obtained from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. The original page where the data set can be found is: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Congressional+Voting+Records.