I'm in The Hague right now at a digital democracy conference, where I was invited to present on my prototype that I've been building the past few months!

It's for doing realtime "human cartography", to make maps of who we are together in complex large-scale discourse (even messy protest).

https://patcon.github.io/polislike-human-cartography-prototy...

Newer video demo: https://youtu.be/C-2KfZcwVl0

It's for exploring human perspective data -- agree, disagree, pass reactions to dozens or hundreds of belief statements -- so we can read it as if it were Google Maps.

My operating assumption is that if a critical mass of us can understand culture and value clashes as mere shapes of discourse, and we can all see it together, the we can navigate them more dispassionately and with clear heads. Kinda like reading a map or watching the weather report -- islands that rise from oceans, or plate tectonics that move like currents over months, and terraform the human landscape -- maybe if we can see these things together, we'll act less out of fear of fun-house caricatures. (E.g., "Hey, dad, it seems like the peninsula you're on is becoming a land bridge toward the alt right corner. I feel a little bummed about that. How do you feel about it?")

(It builds on data and the mathematical primitives of a great tool called Pol.is, which I've worked with for almost a decade.)

Experimental prototype of animating between projections: https://main--68c53b7909ee2fb48f1979dd.chromatic.com/iframe.... (advanced)