Which types of wider public contributions are productive and which are prone to contradicting or creating hierarchical confusion between engagements?

Goni suggests balancing “Big Data” computational methods with “Little Data”—specific examples, quotes, and stories preserving citizens’ actual reasoning—to ensure core threads of wider public opinion are elicited without losing personal nuance. Proposes democratizing data curation through domain ...

Recent experiments (such as in Bowling Green, Kentucky) combine tools like Polis and Google Jigsaw’s Sensemaker to quickly understand a community’s priorities.