| --- |
| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: |
| - en |
| - zh |
| - de |
| tags: |
| - deliberation |
| - democracy |
| - polis |
| - votes |
| - habermas-machine |
| - collective-dialogue |
| pretty_name: Open Deliberation |
| configs: |
| - config_name: text_corpus |
| data_files: text/deliberation_combined.csv |
| default: true |
| - config_name: polis_votes |
| data_files: |
| - split: comments |
| path: polis_votes/*/comments.csv |
| - split: votes |
| path: polis_votes/*/votes.csv |
| - split: summary |
| path: polis_votes/*/summary.csv |
| --- |
| |
| # Open Deliberation |
|
|
| Two related releases in one dataset repo: |
|
|
| | Config | What it is | Vote-preserving? | Size | |
| |--------|------------|------------------|------| |
| | `text_corpus` | Pruned multi-source **text** (Polis comments + Habermas + OpenAI Remesh) | **No** — only optional agree/disagree tallies in `extra` | ~1.8 MB | |
| | `polis_votes` | Polis **comments + votes + summary** per conversation | **Yes** — participant×comment vote matrix | ~lean pack | |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| text = load_dataset("jonaskg/open-deliberation", "text_corpus") |
| votes = load_dataset("jonaskg/open-deliberation", "polis_votes") |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Why two configs? |
|
|
| Polis’s power is the **vote matrix**: each participant voting agree/disagree/pass on each comment, which enables PCA opinion-group maps. A text-only export loses that geometry. |
| `text_corpus` is for NLP / scenario / mediation research. |
| `polis_votes` is for computational social choice and opinion-map replication. |
|
|
| ## `text_corpus` columns |
| |
| `source`, `corpus`, `record_type`, `topic`, `question`, `text`, `stance_or_label`, `agreement_pct`, `extra` |
| |
| Sources: Polis comments (CC BY 4.0), Habermas Machine (*Science* 2024), OpenAI Democratic Inputs / Remesh. |
| |
| ## `polis_votes` layout |
|
|
| ``` |
| polis_votes/<conversation_id>/ |
| comments.csv |
| votes.csv |
| summary.csv |
| ``` |
|
|
| Lean conversations included (vote matrices for March On and the largest Austria Klimarat dumps omitted to keep the release downloadable). Case study index: [compdemocracy.org](https://compdemocracy.org/). |
|
|
| ## Attribution (Polis) |
|
|
| Data was gathered using the Polis software (compdemocracy.org/polis) and is sub-licensed under CC BY 4.0 with Attribution to The Computational Democracy Project. |
|
|
| ## Notes |
|
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| - Not an endorsement of political positions in the data. |
| - Habermas / Remesh appear only in `text_corpus`. |
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