task_categories:tabular-classification size_categories:n<1K language:en license:cc congress tabular_classification binary_classification UCI region:us
@misc{misc_congressional_voting_records_105,
  title        = {{Congressional Voting Records}},
  year         = {1987},
  howpublished = {UCI Machine Learning Repository},
  note         = {{DOI}: \\url{10.24432/C5C01P}}
}
---
language:
- en
tags:
- congress
- tabular_classification
- binary_classification
- UCI
pretty_name: Congress
size_categories:
- n<1K
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
configs:
- voting
license: cc
---
# Congress
The [Congress dataset](https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Congress) from the [UCI ML repository](https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets).
Congressmen of two different parties vote on a series of bills. Guess the party of each voter on the basis of their votes.

# Configurations and tasks
| **Configuration** | **Task**                  | **Description**                                               |
|-------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
| voting            | Binary classification     | What's the party of the voter?               |

# Usage
```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("mstz/congress", "voting")["train"]
```