LocalView
LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.
At present, the database covers 139,616 videos of public meetings 1,012 places and 2,861 distinct governments across the United States between 2006-2022. The map below provides a summary of the geographic coverage in the sample.
Org. type:
Academic / research organization
Project type:
Database
Categories:
Archives, Communicating with the people, Participatory democracy, Speech recognition, Audio processing, Artificial Intelligence, Public meetings
Tags:
YouTube