The SYMBOLITICS Dataset and Toolkit for Political Symbol Analysis

• In Event: Methodological Advances in the Study of Elections

Brief Overview

We build the largest cross-national dataset of party symbols (90+ democracies) and an open Python CV toolkit to detect and classify symbols in the wild, enabling new evidence on campaign visibility, ballot cues, and visual diffusion.

Authors

• Cantay Caliskan, University of Rochester

• David Yen