Needs a title and description.

[boonrs]

• Working title
• Description of what this application is all about.

[boonrs]

@sandrafish throw something in here, anything, just to get it started.

[sandrafish]

Hmm... kind of a lame githubber - thought i commented here yesterday but it isn't here...

So: OKCandidate. Some journo coder types worked on a similar thing in 2012 http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/16/okcandidate-snags-okcupids-approach-tells-you-who-to-vote-for/ with code here https://github.com/albertsun/okcandidate. I need to email Albert Sun and ask him what happened...

Description: Identify your issues and positions, then find your dream (Boulder City Council) candidate with OKCandidate.

[boonrs]

That code is a bit stale, but will pull out the relevant bits.

[sandrafish]

i don't think they ever actually did anything with it... the url is dead. sent him an email

[boonrs]

@sandrafish this algorithm doesn't support open text. For example, a question/answer format like this wouldn't work for this approach. We need to go with questions that have a finite number of answers or give people a little more leeway, perhaps place themselves along a spectogram.