UK Parliament Petition Website: Hourly count data

This dataset contains hourly counts of the number of signatures on each petition posted to the UK Parliament petition website from 2015-07-20 to 2016-09-12. The file is gzip compressed text data in tab-separated values format with four columns: db_id: An internal id number pet_id: The id of the petition on the Parliament website (e.g., 131215 corresponds to the petition https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/131215 ) sigs: The number of signatures observed at datetime. datetime: The date and time of the observation in YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:SS format (e.g., 2015-07-20 18:24:35) This data was collected via a Python scrapping script and initially stored in a MySQL database.