General Conference Data

A dataset containing all general conference talks back to 1971.

genconf

Format

genconf: A 4-level nested data frame with nestings for conference, session, talk, and paragraph.

1. genconf A data frame with one row per conference (year + month)

   year

   Session year

   month

   Session month

   sessions

   List dataframe with one row per session.

2. sessions A data frame one row per session (Saturday AM, PM, etc.)

   session_name

   individual timepoint

   session_id

   mean value including imputed values

   session_url

   Suffix URL path to session (not full url))

   talks

   List of dataframes, one row per talk in that session

3. talks A data frame one row per talk

   talk_urls

   Stub urls for talk.

   talk_session_id

   Talk index within session

   url

   Full url path to talk.

   title1

   Title.

   author1

   Author Name (typically, might be missing)

   author2

   Author Role (typically, might be missing)

   kicker1

   Talk kicker

   paragraphs

   List of dataframes, one row per talk in that session

4. paragraphs A data frame one row per paragraph in talk

   section_num

   If talk has sections, this would be the section number. Newer talks are more likely to have sections.

   p_num

   Paragraph number

   p_id

   Paragraph html tag (can be used to generate a url deep link). Might not be in order with p_num due to edge-case talks that use #p1-#p4 for title, author, kicker, etc.

   is_header

   If a talk contains sections, those sections have headers. Header content will be a few words.

   paragraph

   Text of talk.  html tags (superscripts/footnotes) have been stripped out.

Source

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference