Rockaway Budget Observatory

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The written record, handed to a video

Two measures on two separate axes — never one dual-axis plot. As the share of meetings that point to YouTube instead of writing down the substance rose to 100%, the words of committee reporting in the minutes collapsed to zero.

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Meetings that substitute a video for the written substance

Share of a year's meetings whose minutes say "see the YouTube video" in place of a report. Source field: youtube.substitutes_for.

Words of committee reporting in the minutes

Committee-report section word count per year. The district only began printing section headings in 2015, so earlier years are blank, not zero.

source: data/meeting_analytics.json (youtube.*, section_word_profile) findings T7, T8, R21 →