## Context In November, the United States will elect a new president. Before then, three presidential debates will take place between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as well as one vice presidential debate between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence. While you can watch the debates live, why not also read deeply into the candidates' responses with text analytics? You can now answer any questions you have about the platforms of our presidential hopefuls or their speaking skills. - Which candidate is the most given to loquaciousness? - How many times does Clinton get interrupted? - Who gets the most audience applause? - When is positive sentiment at its highest during the candidates' word play? ## Content & Acknowledgements For consistency, full transcripts of the debates were all taken from The Washington Post who made annotated transcripts available following each debate: * First debate taking place September 26th, 2016 was obtained from [The Washington Post][1]. * The vice presidential debate from October 4th, 2016 was similarly [obtained here][2]. * The "town hall" presidential debate on October 9th is [found here][3]. * The final presidential debate taking place on October 19th is [found here][4]. ![Debate word cloud][7] *Please make any dataset suggestions or requests on the forum. Word cloud from [Debate Visualization][5] by [Jane Yu][6].* [1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/26/the-first-trump-clinton-presidential-debate-transcript-annotated/ [2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/04/the-mike-pence-vs-tim-kaine-vice-presidential-debate-transcript-annotated/ [3]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/09/everything-that-was-said-at-the-second-donald-trump-vs-hillary-clinton-debate-highlighted/ [4]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/19/the-final-trump-clinton-debate-transcript-annotated/ [5]: https://www.kaggle.com/janeyu/d/mrisdal/2016-us-presidential-debates/debate-visualization [6]: https://www.kaggle.com/janeyu [7]: https://www.kaggle.io/svf/396847/2f29647ac57fd5af0bb696fce9f3cd85/__results___files/__results___13_1.png