Input Crowd, Output Meaning

Polis is a 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 has been used all over the world by governments, academics, independent media and citizens, and is completely open source.

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Press coverage from The New York Times, MIT Tech Review, Wired, The Economist, Center for Public Impact, Civicist, and a mini documentary from BBC

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