Digitally Accountable Public Representation (DAPR) Data

This is the main bulk data repository for the Digitally Accountable Public Representation (DAPR) Database, an innovative archive that systematically tracks and analyzes the online communications of federal, state, and local officials in the U.S. Focusing on X/Twitter and Facebook, the current database includes 28,980 public officials, their demographic information, and 5,769,904 Tweets along with 450,972 Facebook posts, dating from January 2020 to December 2024 for X/Twitter and January 2020 to December 2021 for Facebook, offering a rich historical perspective on digital political discourse by elected officials in the U.S.. To comply with the terms of data access on platform APIs, the raw post-level data is aggregated to the week level, and we disseminate content information as bags-of-words rather than the original raw text of posts. The data does include URLs to the original posts, which can be used to "rehydrate" the original data. We also distribute metadata on the officials in the DAPR database. Due to the size of the individual files, we disseminate each post data file in a compressed format. Note that due to changes in the Twitter/X API in 2023, as well as funding for the DAPR project, the scope and coverage of data collected from X shifted between 2024. See readme.pdf for details on the data as well as a description of how the data collection was affected by changes in the X API.

本数据集为数字问责公共表征（Digitally Accountable Public Representation，DAPR）数据库的核心批量数据仓库，该创新型档案系统性追踪并分析美国联邦、州及地方公职人员的线上交流内容。本数据库聚焦X/Twitter与Facebook平台，当前收录28980名公职人员的人口统计信息，以及5769904条推文与450972条Facebook帖子，数据时间范围为：X/Twitter平台数据覆盖2020年1月至2024年12月，Facebook平台数据覆盖2020年1月至2021年12月，可为研究美国民选官员的数字化政治话语提供丰富的历史视角。为遵守各平台API的数据访问条款，原始单条帖子数据已按周维度聚合，且我们仅以词袋（bags-of-words）形式发布内容信息，而非帖子的原始文本。不过数据集包含原始帖子的URL，可用于复原原始数据。我们同时发布DAPR数据库中公职人员的元数据。鉴于单个文件体积较大，所有帖子数据文件均以压缩格式分发。请注意，受2023年Twitter/X API变更以及DAPR项目经费变动影响，2024年起X平台数据的采集范围与覆盖情况发生了调整。有关数据集详情以及X API变更对数据采集工作的影响说明，请参阅readme.pdf文件。

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集是一个系统追踪美国联邦、州和地方官员在线通信的数据库，主要涵盖X/Twitter和Facebook平台，包含超过28,000名官员的人口统计信息和超过600万条社交媒体帖子。数据时间跨度从2020年到2024年，为研究美国政治数字话语提供了丰富的历史视角，但为遵守平台API条款，原始文本以词袋形式聚合分发，并包含原始帖子URL以供重新获取。