The Computational Democracy Project | 308 followers on LinkedIn. We design, engineer, and maintain Pol.is, an open source system for understanding what large groups of people think. | The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, 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. Polis and implementations of the technology have been widely covered in the popular press — including articles from The New York Times, The Guardian, The Economist and MIT Tech Review — as well as in documentaries from the BBC and books from Penguin. CompDem hosts https://pol.is/home, and provides support and services to communities of journalists, academic researchers and public servants innovating future democratic systems.