[OC] – How many bills/laws have your legislators sponsored this year so far? Part 2

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

Source legislation data: https://www.statepulse.me/legislation

Pics 1-2: Congress (U.S. House)

Pics 3-4: State upper chamber

Pics 5-6: State lower chamber (Nebraska is unicameral so it only appears in the state upper chamber)

Improvements from last week: removed black outlines for district boundaries, added absolute metrics for the key using square root progression, added Alaska/Hawaii, and added bills that became law!

If you want more detailed city views, please check the dashboard linked above and feel free to fiddle around.

Using a database of legislation (270k+ 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.

StatePulse is also a free/open source platform that tracks legislation, representatives, and political trends. Everyone should have access to what's actually being passed in legislative chambers as possible to reduce political polarization and increase transparency!

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!

Part 1 from last week: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1n2v1ks/oc_how_many_bills_have_your_legislators_sponsored/