Clustering speeches of the Geneva parliament

[palrogg]

I'd like to cluster the speeches held at the Geneva parliament and see what kind of speeches will arise. Or: to perform a TF-IDF search by politician, then plot the results in small multiples.

Headlines

• Three kind of speeches are held at the Geneva parliament

  Data source

http://ge.ch/grandconseil/memorial/seances-last/010305

Inspiration

Clustering debates from UK politicians [Blog]

Also interesting:

The Words They Used [NYT]

Words in Politics: Some extensions of the word cloud [Blog]

Choice words [NYT]

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[barjacks]

I like this graph but still too many words per category I think. Do you think it would be possible to reduce each politician to one favorite word, preferably a noun? Or maybe two, a noun and a verb?

[thisss]

It's a good idea to experiment with the clustering. Maybe you want to look at subgroups like the parties in order to get some interesting results.

[playfairbot]

Closing pitch since story has been opened at #272