README.md

NYCC Legistar Data

Plan Abstraction

1. Scrape HTML and read into R (BeautifulSoup / HTMLtoTABLE)
2. Convert date into POSIXct format
3. Exploratory Data Analysis
   • Histograms of variables
   • Look for outliers

NYCC Calendered Meetings

Questions

• Number of deferrals by group
• Time-series analysis by group (how many meetings held / year)
• Total number of meetings

Types of Meetings

• Oversight
• Executive Budget Hearings
• Multiple hearings

NYCC Legislation

Questions

• Text analysis by administration (Bloomberg, Guiliani)
• Time-series analysis of text
• Resolution: Introduction ratio
• Number of dead bills on the floor