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Scraping, parsing and indexing the daily Congressional Record to support phrase search over time, and by legislator and date
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weired: top phrases by legislator vs. phrases over time limited to a legislator #101

Open dc3105 opened 8 years ago

dc3105 commented 8 years ago

I want to find out what's the matter per legislator...

I tried top phrases by this legislator and I got the 1st: 153 counts of 'people': screen shot 2016-10-26 at 20 53 30

While, Then I tried the phrase 'people' over time limited to this legislator, I got 62 from 2009, 72 from 2010, 23 from 2011, 21 from 2012, 22 from 2013etc. which yields a sum apparently much larger than 153, which I got above. screen shot 2016-10-26 at 20 57 27

Do I miss anything here??? Anyone know how is this top phrases by legislator working? Like is this count a result of particular timeframe?

Thanks!