Better Data, Better Decisions, Better Outcomes.
Our belief is that the purpose in life is to make things a bit better for future generations. Maybe we are doing that, maybe we aren’t. Maybe our belief is wrong.
We use AI and other technologies to examine global-socio economic policies, frameworks and legislation. We hope to identify best practices that can be implemented broadly and improve the global standard of living while mitigating future risks.
While we are a bit focused on United States policy, the interest in examining policy of other developed countries is high.
Unfortunately, there are almost always limitations or constraints to data. Most of the metrics we review are generally inconclusive given country participation isn’t compulsory. Data from less developed countries is also very limited so we tend to review data of the 38 OECD countries as a primary cohort. Even with the challenges of available data, we think reasonable conclusions and policy changes based on trends that are globally relevant is possible and our goal.
Focus Areas
Dashboards
We continually publish new relevant dashboards from the most objective sources possible. We also use multiple AI platforms to identify potential bias or subjectivity. New dashboards will surface biweekly. The challenge with dashboards is having them display in a meaningful way on any device. This is something that we continue to experiment with and will make adjustments based device type activity analysis.
Political Operations
Many people raise valid concerns with inefficiencies in government but offer few practical solutions. There are many opportunities especially given recent technology innovations. We have several examples published and many other ideas. The persistent debt ceiling debate is top of mind; arguably the most shameful policy failure in US politics.
Sentiment Analysis
With natural language processing, we can take key political meetings and learn about the interactions of elected officials: Who is willing to collaborate and compromise, is there extremism, are they really working toward supporting the people they represent or possibly prioritizing their political career. This technology can also be used to identify logical contradictions and fallacies made by elected officials.
Resources
These are the primary organizations we follow and they provide very in depth information about methodologies and purpose. Wish more people knew about them. We are still thinking about the best way to provide the sources of our data. Given we are using multiple AI platforms, each of which uses multiple data sources with different large language models, any one dashboard could come from plus 20 different sources.
A Few Things To Note:
For Dashboards, we typically focus on the top / bottom 10-20 OECD countries. That provides a sufficient theme and is intelligible. We may use different visualization tools in the future to provide more controls and modeling capabilities to visitors but not a short term priority. We do insert the United States into dashboards even when they aren’t in the top or bottom of the OECD such as the dashboard for % of renewables. This provides context as United States policy is scrutinized globally. Similarly we also include China and Singapore in a few analytics as they have interesting policies to consider in a global context. Ideally, we’d have more data for other continents but it’s just not available. There are also a few dashboards where values had a range so we just assumed the median. Again, this data doesn’t need to be precise where our focus is on logical and sufficient trends. The data is generally from 2022 and 2023 but there are few noted that are maybe 4-6 years back given some constraints from the pandemic.
We are thinking about ways to engage with visitors. A blog will launch in July/Aug 2024 and we may use X and just our contact form as other methods of engagement.
We don’t have a privacy statement because we don’t collect personal data – not even cookies. That could change based on our engagement model which may require authentication for commenting in order to minimize spam. The only information we will review is device type access, page visits, and geography as this information will help us to prioritize updates.
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