Even though the government is shutdown, Voxgov is still “listening.” Since 2014 Voxgov has been ingesting and 
analyzing every statement, report, newsletter and tweet from over 14,000 government websites and social media accounts. To date they have collected almost 50 million pages!
I asked Robert Dessau, voxgov Founder and CEO if he could provide some insights into the statements of official Washington since the start of the shutdown. The word cloud images included in this post are previews of new visualization features which will be added to voxgov in the coming months. The word clouds are based on documents collected by voxgov between December 16, 2018 and January 16, 2019. The government shutdown started December 22nd.
Surprisingly members of both houses are releasing almost the same number of official statements as they released during the same period a year ago (44,118 documents in the past thirty days versus 45,522 in the same 30 day period a year ago.)
There is a much larger impact in the executive agencies which have released only 149,259 documents in the past 30 days compared with 397,238 documents in the same period a year ago. Voxgov normally ingests between 170,000 and 200,000 documents per week.
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FACEBOOK AND TWITTER WORD CLOUD: