SOAP: A new kind of political polling

Read about the platform here: https://soap.fyi

Try the demo here: https://soap-mdoz.onrender.com

To do

Phase 1

• Navigation bar
• Table of politicians with sort, filter and search capability
• Click on a word to see ranking of politicians with respect to that word
• Ranked choice voting system
• Prevent voting indefinitely
• User login, demographics, location
• Public vs logged-in views
• Locality aware - federal, state, local
• More robust and secure database system
• Word cloud

Phase 2

• Universe of words
• Valence of words
• Definitions of words
• NLP word selection tool
• Comparison between two or more politicians
• User can submit reasons why they selected a particular word
• Social features
• Support multiple languages

Known bugs

• Sorting either rows or columns when a search filter is applied resets the filter.

Run this demo locally

• Clone this repo to your machine.
• Make sure you have node installed. (Instructions)
• Run npm i in your terminal from the project directory to install required node modules.
• Run node index.js to start the server.
• Navigate to http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Demo