Data science tools to study local policy-making
LocalView is an open-source data portal built by Soubhik Barari, Tyler Simko, and Mason Reece to advance the study of local government in the United States.
LocalView is the largest known database of local government public meetings as they are captured and uploaded online.
LocalView is continuously collected, processed, and publicly available through an automated pipeline described below.
Cite the Paper
Barari, Soubhik, and Tyler Simko. "LocalView, a database of public meetings for the study of local politics and policy-making in the United States." Scientific Data 10, no. 1 (2023): 135. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02044-y
@article{barari_simko_2023,
title={LocalView, a database of public meetings for the study of local politics and policy-making in the United States.},
author={Barari, Soubhik and Simko, Tyler},
journal={Scientific Data},
volume={10},
number={1},
year={2023}
}
Cite the Dataset
Barari, Soubhik; Simko, Tyler; Reece, Mason. 2026. "LocalView Public Meetings Database", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NJTBEM, Harvard Dataverse
@Misc{localview_2026,
title = {{LocalView}},
author = {Barari, Soubhik and Simko, Tyler and Reece, Mason},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Harvard Dataverse},
doi = {10.7910/DVN/NJTBEM},
}