Research Guides: United States Government Information: Government-produced data For TDM

Text Mining the Congressional Record

Congressional Record for the 43rd-114th Congresses: Parsed Speeches and Phrase Counts
"This dataset contains processed text from the bound and daily editions of the United States Congressional Record, as provided by HeinOnline. The bound edition covers the 43rd to 111th Congresses, and the daily edition covers the 97th to 114th. Each edition includes all text spoken on the floor of each chamber of Congress: the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

US Government-Produced Resources for Text and Data Mining (TDM)

Below is a list of government-produced resources that can be used in Text and Data Mining (TDM). This list does not include our licensed resources that provide government data. For those resources please see the Finding Statistics and Data Research Guide

Finding Government Information for Text Analysis

GovInfo Bulk Data Repository
Bulk data from the US Government Publishing Office. Includes xml files on bills, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, United States Government Manual, House Rules and Manual, Public and Private Laws, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Supreme Court Decisions, Statutes at Large,

HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust contains hundreds of thousands of scanned US federal government documents. Also, the HathiTrust Research Center would be a good resource for large-scale analysis of government documents

US Government Data Portals

The United States government produces a large amount of data. A list of agencies that compile statistics can be found here

data.census.gov
An online source for accessing population, housing, economic and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Users can create thematic maps from teh table view of a product.
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To creata a map, user must select at least 2 like geopgraphies (e.g. 2 or more states, or 2 or more counties) to map. Creat a Map tutorial is as follows: http://factfinder2.census.gov/help/en/tutorials/createmap_tut.htm.
Data.gov
It is US government portal for data including geospatial data. Provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datastes.
Data and Statistics about the United States
Description of federal statistical agencies
Guide to Sources of Statistics
The list of agencies contributing data to the Statistical Abstract of the United States.

Mapping Data

data.census.gov
data.census.gov is an online source for accessing population, housing, economic and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Users can create thematic maps from the table view of a product. For more information, please read More information section.
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To creata a map, user must select at least 2 like geopgraphies (e.g. 2 or more states, or 2 or more counties) to map. Creat a Map tutorial is as follows: http://factfinder2.census.gov/help/en/tutorials/createmap_tut.htm.