I’m not saying this shouldn’t be an option but at least spell it out. All of the proposals to build a new Parliament in the North and turn the Palace of Westminster into a museum would be more expensive.

Okay. But the only way to save that money is to let a World Heritage site sink into the Thames. If you build a new Parliament elsewhere, you still have a failing building full of asbestos, ageing wiring, leaking pipes, falling masonry etc which you can’t use for any purpose in its current state.

For context, Polars is a modern, fast, elegant dataframe library for Python. We used it in all of our computational investigations last year, and in our live election results pipeline for the 2024 US elections.

Annoyingly I can’t find the page that sets out the original classification we used. It was developed by Parliament’s ontology team. The one I linked to previously is a version of it that the Library adapted for research briefings. It’s pretty close though.

No it’s not my work. And looking at it again it looks like an adapted version of the original parliamentary topic taxonomy. Let me see if I can find the original.

Yeah. Sorry for fixating on the beats. In a previous career I did some topic modelling work using this taxonomy for current affairs, so that part of your schema looked familiar to me!

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research/ful...

Structurally I think it looks good! I mean there are always different ways of slicing the pie, but the main thing is that users can decide what labels fit best without too much difficulty. I think this works well in that respect. Allowing multiple beats means it can handle most ambiguous cases.

I think this looks good. Some extra beats might help resolve ambiguity e.g.

- Government and Politics could have an Elections beat

- Economy and Business could have a Finance beat

- Health and Science could have an Energy beat

- Where do stories about agriculture and food production go?

Thanks! That’s really helpful. Have also shared some examples with the via the support email so 🤞

Hi Olivier. I was wondering, did you find a way of getting around this problem? Did Bluesky fix it for you? Thanks.

Hi Alex, is there any news on a solution to this issue?

Can you let me know when a fix for this exists? I am seeing the same issue.

It’s got some rough edges that I’m sure they’ll smooth off over time, but I am already enjoying using it. RStudio is starting to feel old fashioned and this feels quite fresh.

😆