Content # Political Elasticity Scores This folder contains the data behind the story [Election Update: The House Districts That Swing The Most (And Least) With The National Mood](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-the-house-districts-that-swing-the-most-and-least-with-the-national-mood/). An elasticity score measures how sensitive a state or district it is to changes in the national political environment. `elasticity-by-state.csv` contains the elasticity scores for each state and the District of Columbia. `elasticity-by-district.csv` contains the elasticity scores for all 435 congressional districts. Context This is a dataset from [FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/) hosted on their [GitHub](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data). Explore FiveThirtyEight data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the FiveThirtyEight [organization page](https://www.kaggle.com/fivethirtyeight)! * Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily. Acknowledgements This dataset is maintained using GitHub's [API](https://developer.github.com/v3/?) and Kaggle's [API](https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api). This dataset is distributed under the [Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license.