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Add `make board` and docs/board.md so the Board's rebuild-and-redeploy flow is a documented step, not tribal knowledge. Covers why the county data is inlined (self-contained Artifact / CSP), that build_viz.py injects it into board.html, and that a live Artifact must be REPUBLISHED (editing the repo file doesn't update a deployed Artifact). README links it in both the make list and the docs index. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# The Board
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`viz/board.html` is the Board — a rebuilt *view* of the canonical tree, never a
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source. It is a nationwide county choropleth (income / population / poverty
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lenses) where any county opens a drill-down of its officeholders and demographics.
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## Pipeline
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```text
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data/officeholders-v3.jsonl ─┐
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data/acs_county.jsonl ├─ scripts/build_viz.py ─> viz/board.html (inlined)
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data/place_county_crosswalk ┤ └> viz/county_*.json (companions)
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data/fec_candidates, acs_cd ─┘
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```
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`build_viz.py` resolves each official to a county with the **same**
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`build.place_resolver` + `county_slug` the tree uses, so the Board and the tree
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agree by construction. It then does two things:
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1. Writes `viz/county_data.json` and `viz/county_detail.json` — human-readable,
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diffable companions.
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2. **Injects** the fresh data straight into `board.html`, rewriting three marked
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lines: `const D` (per-county summary), `const CDETAIL` (per-county rosters),
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and `const TOTALS` (the header counts).
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## Why the data is inlined
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The Board is deployed as a **self-contained Artifact**, and the Artifact CSP
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blocks every external request — no `fetch`, no external scripts, styles, or
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fonts. So the county data cannot be loaded at runtime; it must live inside
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`board.html`. That is why `build_viz.py` writes into the file rather than letting
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the page read the JSON companions (nothing reads them — they exist for diffs).
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The header totals (officeholders, candidates, counties, districts) read from the
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injected `const TOTALS` object — never hardcoded — so they cannot drift out of
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sync on the next rebuild.
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## Rebuild
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```bash
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make board # regenerate board.html + the JSON companions from the tree
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```
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`board.html` is deterministic: two runs are byte-identical.
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## Redeploy the Artifact
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Editing `board.html` in the repo does **not** update a live Artifact — the
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deployed copy is a snapshot. After `make board`, the Board must be **republished**
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to its existing Artifact URL for the change to appear on claude.ai.
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Republishing to the *same* URL requires passing that URL back to the publish step
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(`Artifact url=<existing-url>`); publishing without it mints a new URL. Keep the
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current Board Artifact URL in the team's deployment record so redeploys stay in
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place instead of scattering new links.
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