Media

candidate_keyword_count_log

Each day, we use the Quantexa News API to gather articles relevant to the thousands of active campaigns in our database.

This table shows a rolling count of keywords associated with specific candidates in 90-day windows.

Schema

Field

Description

candidate id

Unique ID representing a specific person running for a specific office in a specific district, which is held constant across elections.

date start

The beginning of the time window associated with this candidate + keyword pair.

date end

The end of the time window associated with this candidate + keyword pair.

term

A specific keyword identified in coverage of a candidate.

count

Number of news articles about the given candidate published in the given time window mentioning the given term.