Exploring the Princeton Corpus of Political Emails dataset

This is an exploration of the Princeton Corpus of Political Emails dataset in the form of word clouds created from emails sent in each state.

You can hover (or click on mobile) the state on the map on the left to see the corresponding word cloud. Note that some states (AR, GA, MS, MT, and WY) don’t have any data.

AK ME VT NH MA WA MT ND SD MN WI MI NY CT RI OR ID WY NE IA IL IN OH PA NJ CA NV UT CO KS MO KY WV MD DE AZ NM OK AR TN VA NC TX LA MS AL GA SC HI FL
New York, Party New, Green Party, York State, Image, Libertarian Party, State Friend, Dear, York URL, LPNY, Immediate Release, Friend, Please, Governor, Cuomo, Our, Last, Ballot Access, Hello, join, Chairman, Jay, Jacobs, Watch, With, just, two, Committee, are, Andrew, voter, choice, Call, from, Statement, Pledge, Now, Support, Future, Share, TOMORROW, Tuesda, his, tho, talk, We're, home, stretch, under, months, Democratic, March, final, weeks, urges, Was, Give, gift, back, Fill, Interim, Vaca, Revives, Hurdles, Half, Counties, Have, Local, Liber, Urgent, Message, Important, Announcement, Regarding, Libertar, Correction, Email, Selects, National, Convention, Delegates, Dea, Chair, Petitioning, win, governmen, Keep, Moving, Toward, Goal, Conve, Help, Maintain, Phone, Bank, click, link, below, verify, time, Republican, Presidential, Candid, trying, throw, YOUR, LEGISL, Simply, BREAKING, Climate, Cris, Got, GPNY, Name, body_text, dtype, string

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