Design considerations

Creating using OpenStates data and count.js.

Legislators

• States have from 13 to 424 active legislators, mean 143.5, median 162.5.

Legislators, when they do define the fields below, have:

• 1 to 22 roles, mean 4.9, median 4.
• 1 to 21 roles on committees, mean 4, median 3.
• 7 to 36 characters in full_name, mean 14.3, median 14.

Legislators also have:

• 0 to 8344 sponsored bills, mean 189.9, median 27.
• 0 to 468 related bills, mean 2.3, median 0.

Committees

• States have 10 to 136 committees, mean 51.6, median 47.5.

Committees, when they do define the fields below, have:

• 1 to 93 members, mean 11.3, median 23.
• 3 to 131 characters in committee, mean 24.6, median 29.

Committees also have:

• 0 to 346 sponsored bills, mean 3.5, median 0.
• 0 to 38404 related bills, mean 69.8, median 0.
• 0 to 4689 bills on which actions where taken, mean 9.9, median 0.

Bills

• States have 934 (DE) to 69,876 (IL) bills, mean 8156.1, median 3396.5.

Bills, when they do define the fields below, have:

• 1 to 1533 actions, mean 8.7, median 3.
• 1 to 199 (WIB00000879) documents, mean 2.5, median 1.
• 1 to 201 sponsors, mean 4.6, median 1.
• 1 to 180 primary sponsors, mean 1.9, median 1.
• 1 to 988 versions, mean 1.8, median 1.
• 1 to 14 (INB00001675) actions.related_entities, mean 1.6, median 1.
• 1 to 61,993 characters in title, mean 109.5, median 30.
• 1 to 65,385 characters in summary, mean 360.5, median 2474.

Districts

• States have from 10 (DC) to 253 (PA) districts, mean 131.2, median 175.5.

Events

• States have from 0 (AL) to 25,725 (NJ) events.

Votes

• States have from 0 (KY) to 35,727 (CA) votes.