pol.is algorithms

Created: 2022-01-21T20:54:56-06:00

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• Give a survey which asks a question and others can input proposed answers
• Have users upvote or downvote other proposals to the question
• Generate a vector for each user which +1 or -1 proposals based on up/down vote
• Big matrices out of these vectors
• Principle Component Analysis of the matrix to find variances; then do clustering to identify tribes