#cdnpoli and the Twittersphere: User mentions during the 2019 Federal Election

This is a raw dataset containing the @mention (username) frequencies within tweets that contained one of 150 various keywords and hashtags related to Canadian politics. The dataset begins on October 1 2019 and ends on November 15 2019, providing a roughly 6-week window around the October 21 election. Data was captured using the Digital Methods Initiative's DMI-TCAT toolkit (github.com/dmi-tcat). Part of a larger project supported by a grant from the Canadian Heritage Fund.