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I saw a fascinating presentation by the guy who help make this. It is quite a fascinating attempt to summarize rich personal opinions and bring people together. Although the linked page, never seemed to take off, it shows potential.

Discussing opinions in the argument web.

Welcome to Opinion Space, a new approach to generating and exchanging insightful ideas about issues and policies. Click the glowing point to begin...

Our platform empowers you to: Go far beyond simple keyword counting. Benefit from the only patent-pending social media monitoring and analysis technology. Dig deeper than measuring positive versus negative. Tap into billions of current and past online conversations. Gain actionable insights into the market's opinion of your brand and your products. Leverage a customizable, private dashboard. Know how and why your messaging is resonating (or not resonating) with your audience. Know what opinion leaders think about specific product features. Know what your customers like (and dislike) about the competition. Gain the insights necessary to make critical business decisions.

A pilot program that enables people to submit comments about certain District agencies and view how District residents graded those agencies. The goal is to help residents engage better with government and help government agencies improve the quality of their services.

In my opinion, the best book on applied statistics and the task of extracting meaning from data. Also available as a free download.

Austria , Germany , Greece , Switzerland , United Kingdom Type of initiative Project or service Case Abstract NOMAD aims to introduce the experience of setting a political agenda in a non-moderated, crowd sourcing way, by providing decision-makers with automated solutions for content search, acquisition, analysis and visualisation, while gathering online information from social media, blogs, news feeds and the web, following upon complex sets of issues.

"I have a brain cancer. Yesterday I went to get my digital medical records: I have to show them to many doctors. Sadly they were in a closed, proprietary format and, thus, I could not open them using my computer, or send them in this format to all the people who could have saved my life. I cracked them. I opened them and converted the contents into open formats, so that I could share them with everyone. Just today I have been able to share the data about my health condition (about my brain cancer) with 3 doctors. 2 of them already replied."

Update here: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/25/opinion/iaconesi-cure-open-source/index.html

About the project The USA Today/ Twitter Election meter is a graphic representation of the Twitter Political Index, a daily number produced by Twitter in partnership with Topsy labs and polling firms The Mellman Group and North Star Opinion Research.