[OC] – How many bills have your legislators sponsored this year so far? Darker = more bills

StatePulse interactive dashboard: https://www.statepulse.me/dashboard -> districts -> toggle representative heatmap on

Pic 1: Congress (U.S. House)

Pic 2: State upper chamber

Pic 3: State lower chamber

Using a database of legislation (250k+ bills), I counted how many bills each representative sponsored and assigned each amount to their geographical locations respectively, displayed as a gradient of purple. Note that many states' legislative chambers have not been in active session this year so far.

If I missed anything, please let me know 🙂

StatePulse is also a free/open source platform that tracks legislation, representatives, and political trends. I believe that as many people should have access to what's actually being passed in legislative chambers as possible, especially considering how polarized the environment has become. As an incoming college freshman majoring in Computer Science, I think technology can be a great aid in helping regular folks like me learn.

Source code below; donations are also appreciated!

Github repo: https://github.com/lightningbolts/state-pulse

Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/timberlake2025

Special thanks to: OpenStates for their legislative data/scrapers, Congress for providing a free public api, MapLibre GL for map rendering, and more!