electricsheepafrica/africa-members-of-9th-parliament-of-uganda

Members of 9th Parliament of Uganda

Publisher: Code for Africa · Source: OpenAfrica · License: cc-by · Updated: 2023-11-30

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Abstract

A comprehensive list of all the representatives in the 9th Parliament of Uganda that have been in Parliament since May 2011.

Each row in this dataset represents tabular records. Data was last updated on OpenAfrica on 2023-11-30. Geographic scope: Africa (multiple countries).

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Humanitarian and development data
Unit of observation	Tabular records
Rows (total)	385
Columns	14 (1 numeric, 13 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	308 rows
Test split	77 rows
Geographic scope	Africa (multiple countries)
Publisher	Code for Africa
OpenAfrica last updated	2023-11-30

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Variables

Demographic — image (http://www.parliament.go.ug/mpdata/pics/9parl/CHEMASWET610.jpg, http://www.parliament.go.ug/mpdata/pics/9parl/AYENA592.jpg, http://www.parliament.go.ug/mpdata/pics/9parl/ONGALO742.jpg), gender.

Identifier / Metadata — id (672152be-576f-4c1a-aedc-3965474b044d, be76f438-92c1-45a1-bea9-a96d59c48621, 98146342-6016-4bc2-ac6f-29da32459852), name (Abdi Fadhil Kisos Chemaswet, Krispus Ayena, Obote Clement Keneth Ongalo), sort_name (Chemaswet, Abdi Fadhil Kisos, Ayena, Krispus, Ongalo, Obote Clement Keneth), group_id (NRM, INDEP, FDC), area_id (ocd-division/country:ug/region:eastern/subregion:sebbei/district:kween/constituency:kween_county, ocd-division/country:ug/region:central/subregion:buganda/district:mukono/constituency:mukono_municipality, ocd-division/country:ug/region:northern/subregion:acholi/district:lamwo/constituency:lamwo_county) and 2 others.

Other — email (achemaswet@parliament.go.ug, stashobya@parliament.go.ug, nbyamukama@parliament.go.ug), group (National Resistance Movement, Independent, Forum for Democratic Change), area (Kween County, Kumi County, Kawempe Division South), chamber (Parliament), term (range 9.0–9.0).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-members-of-9th-parliament-of-uganda")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
id	object	0.0%	672152be-576f-4c1a-aedc-3965474b044d, be76f438-92c1-45a1-bea9-a96d59c48621, 98146342-6016-4bc2-ac6f-29da32459852
name	object	0.0%	Abdi Fadhil Kisos Chemaswet, Krispus Ayena, Obote Clement Keneth Ongalo
sort_name	object	0.0%	Chemaswet, Abdi Fadhil Kisos, Ayena, Krispus, Ongalo, Obote Clement Keneth
email	object	1.6%	achemaswet@parliament.go.ug, stashobya@parliament.go.ug, nbyamukama@parliament.go.ug
group	object	5.2%	National Resistance Movement, Independent, Forum for Democratic Change
group_id	object	5.2%	NRM, INDEP, FDC
area_id	object	9.4%	ocd-division/country:ug/region:eastern/subregion:sebbei/district:kween/constituency:kween_county, ocd-division/country:ug/region:central/subregion:buganda/district:mukono/constituency:mukono_municipality, ocd-division/country:ug/region:northern/subregion:acholi/district:lamwo/constituency:lamwo_county
area	object	37.9%	Kween County, Kumi County, Kawempe Division South
chamber	object	0.0%	Parliament
term	int64	0.0%	9.0 – 9.0 (mean 9.0)
image	object	0.0%	http://www.parliament.go.ug/mpdata/pics/9parl/CHEMASWET610.jpg, http://www.parliament.go.ug/mpdata/pics/9parl/AYENA592.jpg, http://www.parliament.go.ug/mpdata/pics/9parl/ONGALO742.jpg
gender	object	0.0%
esa_source	object	0.0%
esa_processed	object	0.0%

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
term	9.0	9.0	9.0	9.0

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from OpenAfrica via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. 4 column(s) with >80% missing values were removed: twitter, facebook, start_date, end_date. The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from Code for Africa and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• The following columns have >20% missing values and should be treated with caution in modelling: area.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{openafrica_africa_members_of_9th_parliament_of_uganda,
  title     = {Members of 9th Parliament of Uganda},
  author    = {Code for Africa},
  year      = {2023},
  url       = {https://open.africa/dataset/members-of-9th-parliament-of-uganda},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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