The Congress Viewer Demo App

Our prototype web app, the Congress Viewer , explores how the tools to measure lexical change – and more sophisticated NLP strategies such as parsing and measuring grammatical relationships – can open a window into political discourse that will make what happens in Congress more transparent to researchers and everyday citizens alike.

The Congress Viewer is a prototype app. For our final app, citizens using our toolset will be able to easily navigate from an overview showing change over time, to a dramatization of how different candidates talk about the same issue, to the in-text mentions of word use that a computer has used to produce the visualizations in question.

Below is a truncated version of the app. Click here to interact with a full sized version.