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stephbuon / hansard-speakers

A data processing pipeline to disambiguate speakers in the 19th-century British Parliamentary debates.
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Write a script to look for MPs who were not members of parliament #92

Closed stephbuon closed 3 years ago

stephbuon commented 3 years ago

We need to figure out which speakers are not members of Parliament (MPs). Sometimes non-MPs, such as politicians or other important people, will speak in Parliament, but not as a member.

Please write a script to automate the process of inferring non-MPs.

Usually when a speaker is an MP, if you Google the speaker, a Hansard People link will show up right away. For example, Googling Mr. Gladstone.

When they are not an MP, they might show up in the Hansard API for debates, but not Hansard People.

For example, SIR U. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH shows up in the debates (see here), but not the Hansard People API.

Please export all likely-non MPs to a csv file and please make sure to push the code to do this search to the repository.

stephbuon commented 3 years ago

I wrote and added to web-tool/speaker-search.