BioGuide Scrape

[polisciresearcher]

Hello! Has anyone been able to scrape the BioGuide and separate out variables such as place of birth, educational institution, etc? I have Josh's CSV files, but the biographies are one continuous variable. Separate variables for the biographical details would be wonderful to have. Is this something any of you have tried to pull out?

I really appreciate any help you may be able to provide!

[konklone]

@polisciresearcher It's not everything, but we do have a script which attempts to walk the bioguide and get each birthday, and all name pieces. It's very much imperfect, and hacky -- and hasn't been touched in a while.

cc @GullicksonK

[dannguyen]

Ha, I was just thinking about this and was about to make a new Issue if this weren't already asked...how about making the bioguide text as a field for each legislator? I know some of its text will be redundant, but for people interested in hacking their own school/job parser (or just for quick lookup), having the bioguide text would be convenient.

[JoshData]

I've also just been thinking about this. :)

The last couple of weeks I've been writing a grammar to do a deep parse of bioguide entries. I should have something to commit later today.

[JoshData]

See #304.