{"id":26342,"date":"2025-06-09T06:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T03:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/?p=26342"},"modified":"2025-05-29T18:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:50:54","slug":"50-issues-of-the-riigikogu-toimetised-from-a-data-science-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/previous-issues\/no-51\/50-issues-of-the-riigikogu-toimetised-from-a-data-science-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"50 issues of the Riigikogu Toimetised from a data science perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE lead\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"letter-spacing: -.2pt;\">The 50-issue corpus of Riigikogu Toimetised, Estonia\u2019s parliamentary journal, offers a rich dataset for computational text analysis. Leveraging data science methods, Nemvalts and Allandi reveal how linguistic patterns, word frequencies, and thematic structures chart the evolution of Estonian political discourse over two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"letter-spacing: -.2pt;\"> Frequent terms such as \u201cstate,\u201d \u201claw,\u201d and \u201cEurope\u201d highlight recurring institutional concerns, while spikes in references to \u201cUkraine\u201d and \u201cRussia\u201d mirror geopolitical crises. Topic modelling uncovers thematic shifts\u2014from governance and EU integration to energy, education, and security\u2014while \u201cParliamentary News\u201d traces global legislative trends, with the UK, Russia, and France most frequently cited. This fusion of digital humanities and political analysis repositions the journal as more than a platform of ideas\u2014it becomes a mirror of the state\u2019s democratic imagination, ripe for longitudinal inquiry and civic insight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwiftINGLISE\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 50-issue corpus of Riigikogu Toimetised, Estonia\u2019s parliamentary journal, offers a rich dataset for computational text analysis. Leveraging data science methods, Nemvalts and Allandi reveal how linguistic patterns, word frequencies, and thematic structures chart the evolution of Estonian political discourse over two decades. Frequent terms such as \u201cstate,\u201d \u201claw,\u201d and \u201cEurope\u201d highlight recurring institutional concerns, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"class_list":["post-26342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-51","topic-varia-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26343,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26342\/revisions\/26343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}