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@saschagobel saschagobel released this 01 Feb 17:00
· 49 commits to master since this release
  • Changed some function calls: get_facial is now get_portrait and get_occupation is now get_profession.
  • Changed valid legislature arguments for get_ functions. Full legislature names are no longer accepted as legislature codes. Instead, three-letter country codes such as aut, can, cze, fra, deu, irl, sco, gbr, usa_house, usa_senate must be used.
  • All legislative periods of Canada's House of Commons added to the database (42 in total).
  • All legislative periods of Czech Republic's Poslanecka Snemovna added to the database (8 in total).
  • All legislative periods of Scotland's Parliament added to the database (5 in total).
  • 38th - 57th legislative periods of UK's House of Commons added to the database (20 in total).
  • Current session of the Austrian Nationalrat added to the database (26th).
  • Current session of the German Bundestag added to the database (19th).
  • Current session of the French Assemble added to the database (15th).
  • Current session of the United States House of representatives added to the database (116th).
  • Current session of the United States Senate added to the database (116th).
  • ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 three-letter country codes added to all core datasets.
  • Start- and end date of sessions added to all political datasets.
  • Missing legislators and services variable added to all sessions of the Irish Dáil.
  • Error in United States Senate Wikipedia revision records corrected.
  • Missing religious affiliation added from 1st to 18th German Bundestag using official data.
  • Erroneous information on United States Senate and House members' period of service corrected.
  • Additional variables on government/opposition status and leader positions added to all sessions of the Canadian House of Commons and United States Congress.
  • Correction and alignment of party names across legislative periods for all parliaments.
  • Emotion estimates removed from the portraits dataset.