Top 100 Narratives in the U.S. Congressional Record (1994-2015)

Note: This figure displays the 100 most frequent narratives in the U.S. Congressional Record. We represent our narrative tuples in a directed multigraph, in which the nodes are entities and the edges are verbs. Node and edge sizes are respectively scaled by node degree and narrative frequency. The resulting figure is obtained via the Barnes Hut force-directed layout algorithm. The direction of edges reflects the direction of the actions undertaken. The color of edges indicates partisan narratives -- statistically significant log-odds ratios (95\% level) are colored in red for Republicans and in blue for Democrats, with nonpartisan narratives in gray.