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Look into pol.is #1362

Open Daniel-Mietchen opened 4 years ago

Daniel-Mietchen commented 4 years ago

as per https://pol.is/ and https://pol.is/home

Input Crowd, Output Meaning Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

and https://github.com/pol-is/notebooks and http://web.archive.org/web/20201012044814/https://www.wired.com/story/how-taiwans-unlikely-digital-minister-hacked-the-pandemic/

Daniel-Mietchen commented 4 years ago

The Jupyter notebooks analyzing pol.is data come without actual data, but https://github.com/pol-is/openData/find/master and https://github.com/audreyt/polis-tally have some, including the data that seems to have been used in the notebooks.

Daniel-Mietchen commented 4 years ago

Through their Twitter, I came across a tweet about an interesting post on long-term politics and an associated Clay Shirky TED talk, but I'll leave that for later.

Daniel-Mietchen commented 4 years ago

See also the case studies at https://roamresearch.com/#/app/polis-methods/page/FFCfORSze .

Daniel-Mietchen commented 4 years ago

I set up https://pol.is/m/7t8xadds8v to test things out. Not sure yet about next steps — I have seen pages like https://roamresearch.com/#/app/polis-methods/page/01-31-2020 that say

Post the link in your communication platform, along with statement of the polling period with date and time, to begin the polling period

but the link does not seem publicly accessible...