Women of Color in Congress data

[PythonCoderUnicorn]

Hi again! : )

I have gathered a dataset from data.world, source and the data was created 4 years ago.

The only description that came with data was:

There have been 52 African-American women who have served in Congress. The first African-American woman elected to Congress, Shirley Chisholm of New York, won election to the House in 1968. site

I did some data cleaning on the dates_of_service column. The data has 67 rows and 5 columns.

women_of_color_congress.csv

library(tidyverse)

WOCC = read_csv('~/Downloads/women_of_color_congress.csv') %>% janitor::clean_names()

glimpse(WOCC)

WOCC = WOCC %>% 
  rename(state =x3)

# "1965\xd01977; 1990\xd02002" 
WOCC$dates_of_service = str_replace_all(WOCC$dates_of_service, pattern = "\\xd0",replacement = '-')

#  "1965�1977;
WOCC$dates_of_service = str_replace_all(WOCC$dates_of_service, pattern = "�",replacement = '-')

Data Dictionary

variable	class	description
name	chr	name of Congress Woman
party_state	chr	political party of US State
state	chr	abbreviated State name
dates_of_service	chr	year date ranges of service
ethnicity	chr	Congress Woman ethnicity

[jonthegeek]

I'd love to use this (or something close), but I feel like we should try to make it as up-to-date as possible.

[lgibson7]

Hi @PythonCoderUnicorn. Thanks for submitting this issue. Would you be willing to submit the data set through a PR? You can find the instructions on how to do so here.