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Source https://politi.kiwi/tracker

Over on the website Politikiwi they are tracking the government’s election promises. The website was launched eight months ago and its existence was announced on Reddit. It began as a personal project for 19-year-old software engineer Robert Calvert’s portfolio.

Government promises. Source https://politi.kiwi/tracker
Introducing Politikiwi – A polling aggregation and politician popularity tracking site for New Zealand politics.[…] Politikiwi (portmanteau of “political” and “kiwi”) is a one-of-a-kind-in-New-Zealand web-app which offers:

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  • an aggregate of recent opinion polls.
  • a political values test which tells users their ideology and suggests aligned political parties.
  • a custom party leader popularity tracker which, using thousands of tweets and the power of natural language processing, measures the popularity of New Zealand’s political party leaders by day, week and month.

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