Plotting the number of women in the US congress

I wrote a simple python script to plot the number of women in congress and used it in my intro CS class this week. Two reasons:

1. That jump in 2019 is so good!!! This is helping me get over 2016.

2. We shouldn’t have to choose between activism and science.

https://github.com/pleunipennings/PlotNumWomenCongress 

Data from wikipedia on Nov 10th (numbers may still change when final races are called).

If anyone has similar data for the number of people of color in congress, I would like to plot that too!