BST 270: Individual Project

This repository contains my attempt to reproduces figures from FiveThirtyEight's How Americans View Biden's Response To The Coronavirus Crisis.

Environment

This project utilizes Python programming language. To reproduce this result, clone this repo by

git clone https://github.com/DamarisDeng/bst270-project.git
cd bst270-project

To install packages used to build this project, create a conda environment and use the requirement.txt file to install all dependencies.

conda env create -n project
conda activate project
pip install -r requirements.txt

Code

A complete code for reproduction is available at ./code/covid-response.ipynb.

Data

The data set used for the reproduction analysis is available at ./data/covid_approval_toplines.csv. It contains the calculated daily averages for the approval polls.

Column	Description
subject	This column marks whose handling of covid-19 the approval poll is about, the value can be Trump or Biden
modeldate	Date of this summary info.
party	Party of respondents
approve_estimate	The percentage of people who approves.
disapprove_estimate	The percentage of people who approves.
timestamp	The time point for the summary work.