Empty group and unexpected results from real pol.is data example #11
Description
Hi Erik,
I tried running polilite with a real pol.is conversation:
I converted the two .csv to your expected .yaml format report_from_polis.yaml.
Repro available here: https://github.com/nicobao/polislite-repro
As you can see in result.log, it's strange:
Consensus Statements:
- Our nearby city comes to our brigade with internal (but open souce) projects that need a new stakeholder to reach their potential. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade holds my local government accountable (strong disagreement)
- My brigade gives a voice to people impacted by government services (strong disagreement)
- My brigade offers workforce development for my local community (strong disagreement)
- My brigade advises local government and non-profit partners (strong disagreement)
- My brigade trains locaal government and non-profit partners (strong disagreement)
- My brigade provides volunteers that resource projects from other local initiatives (strong disagreement)
- My brigade provides volunteers that resource projects from other brigades (strong disagreement)
- This is a substantial focus of our work. (strong disagreement)
- I want my brigade to be seen as a go-to resource for digital expertise among local government staff. (strong disagreement)
- The “principles & practices of the digital age” embed inequity and bias into our technology. I want brigades to work toward changing this. (strong disagreement)
- Brigades' focus should be on improving tech. delivery in government, and are not well positioned to try to be everything to everyone. (strong disagreement)
- A technologist's role in community problems is to democratize access to technology (strong disagreement)
- A year from now, our brigade is likely to have more active local members. (strong disagreement)
- CfA should partner with existing open source projects for good, like Mozilla Fdn, Wikimedia, etc (strong disagreement)
- Our brigade serves as a matchmaker, connecting stakeholders from different sectors and fields who may have shared interests. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade spends too much time reinventing the wheel instead of iterating and innovating. (strong disagreement)
- Members of my brigade would appreciate being matched to projects that fit their interests and skills, even if they weren't local (strong disagreement)
- Maintaining high-quality software projects long-term without the support of paid staff is not realistic for my brigade. (strong disagreement)
- We should be spending more time working with and educating elected officials. (strong disagreement)
- My Brigade wants to have a sustainable funding model. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade wants local private tech companies to sponsor us. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade has the capacity to pursue multiple projects. (strong disagreement)
- Not formally, but how we do everything: learning through doing. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade has more positive impact by helping participants better understand government and civics, than by building tech tools. (strong disagreement)
- I want my brigade to deliver quickly enough on important projects so our community partners succeed, appreciate us, and brag on us. (strong disagreement)
- Our community needs a brigade because our city IT department uses every excuse to gatekeep and build power for themselves over the people. (strong disagreement)
- I believe, if we work together, we can find thoughtful ways to advance diversity/equity/inclusion without sacrificing transparency. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade is getting better at working with people-powered community partners. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade has said they want to share their work/learnings, since every insight & every code snippet has the power to make us all better. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade, OpenOakland, has become a slave to require projects to be politically correct. Not just do good governement. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade has become preoccupied with requiring projects to be politically correct. Not just do good government. (strong disagreement)
- I want my brigade to leverage data to build understanding and trust between our community and our government. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade struggles to complete projects. (strong disagreement)
- I want my brigade to practice age equity in its recruitment to achieve diversity of experience in its project teams. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade members have said they just want to work on a specific project. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade struggles to maintain more than 6 active members at a time. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade leadership is overwhelmed by the amount of work to be done. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade leadership does not enjoy doing organizing work. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade leadership does not enjoy doing fundraising work. (strong disagreement)
- I want my brigade to be better at storytelling. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade needs help recruiting members. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade is majority technologists with little to no civics understanding. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade doesn’t value the time or effort of its members and will discard work that is done by them. (strong disagreement)
- Our local government is focused on internnal performance KPIs and not projects in the public interest. (strong disagreement)
- Our brigade has been most successful when we've partnered with local nonprofits and social workers. (strong disagreement)
- The nonprofit community has a much better understanding of the needs of individuals and families seeking help from government resources. (strong disagreement)
- Code schools / bootcamps are a great recruiting source for brigade volunteers. We don't teach code, but we introduce students to civic tech. (strong disagreement)
- I want to be part of a National Brigade that fixes systemic federal government problems. (Even if fed gov is not asking for help). (strong disagreement)
- I believe brigades can overcome social inequality and economic inequality utilizing various resources at their disposal. (strong disagreement)
- I want my brigade to organize with others in our community so that technology (Facial recognition) isn't used to discriminate in our city. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade cannot align our work with CfA's projects because we don't know what CfA is doing or how we can collaborate. (strong disagreement)
- My brigade is struggling to deliver value to partners *and* to enable volunteers to engage productively. (strong disagreement)
- More than anything else, our volunteers are motivated by personal, tangible contributions to meaningful work. (strong disagreement)
- More than anything else, our volunteers are motivated by being part of a like-minded community. (strong disagreement)
- More than anything else, our volunteers are motivated by highly-impactful projects. (strong disagreement)
- Our volunteers are DE-motivated by periods of inaction more than anything else. (strong disagreement)
- Money is one of the top issues preventing progress in my brigade. (strong disagreement)
Divisive Statements:
- My brigade has fewer than 10 active members
- My brigade has more than 50 active members
- I attended my first brigade meeting over 2 years ago.
- My brigade changes the conversation locally through long-term government partnerships
- My brigade creates new civic technologists.
- My brigade trains future public servants with digital delivery skills.
- My brigade solves local problems with the tools of technology, locally.
- My brigade funnels new and emerging technologists into “good tech”
- My brigade provides digital services and capacity to local government starved for these resources.
- My brigade provides digital services and capacity to local nonprofits starved for these resources.
- My brigade scales Code for America products and principles.
- My brigade advocates for good technical policy and against bad policy.
- My brigade volunteers serve as the thought leaders and practitioners of the civic technology ecosystem.
- My brigade trains others (technologists, gov staff, nonprofits, activists) on how to apply the principles and practices of the digital age.
- My brigade wants to lift up the science and technology of indigenous people
- I want my brigade to push back on local government when we see systemic inefficiencies and inequities in service delivery.
- I want my brigade to serve as a partner and champion of government partners.
- I want my brigade to serve as a partner & champion for traditionally marginalized groups who are otherwise underserved by local government.
- I want my brigade to be seen as a go-to resource for digital expertise among local community groups.
- I want my brigade to develop tech solutions that are scalable across our local government partners.
- I want my brigade to develop technology that expands the impact of local social justice groups.
- I want my brigade to augment or expand our local government’s digital capacity.
- I want my brigade to use tech to elevate & amplify the intrinsic knowledge of our local marginalized & underrepresented communities.
- I want my brigade to deliver end-to-end technology solutions to local government, similar to how a vendor might.
- I want my brigade to partner with and learn from local government when we see systemic inefficiencies and inequities in service delivery
- I want my brigade to raise the visibility of issues of equitable service delivery in our community.
- I believe brigades are most effective when working in partnership with local, community based organizations.
- I believe brigades must engage more actively in advocacy to have long-term change on the problems we seek to address
- My brigade does projects as experiments that push government to view its own mandate in those areas differently.
- My brigade doesn't do enough to center the voices of those our technology most impacts.
- Technologists aren't always the best people to solve community problems.
- My brigade prioritizes amiable government partnerships over community needs.
- The "principles and practices of the digital age" have different meaning at local vs national government, nonprofits, and tech companies
- Brigades are not a place for folks to learn to code, but for those with skills to give back.
- My brigade receives enough support from Code for America.
- My brigade needs funding or assistance with fundraising to reach our full potential
- I'd like my brigade to find a better way to use the adjacent policy expertise we often attract but can't retain.
- My Brigade wants to run regular events in more areas of our city
- My brigade wants volunteers from local private technology companies.
- Principles, yes; products, not generally.
- Occasionally; also we work with several different local cities due to the nature of the geography of local munis.
Group Positions:
Group 1 characteristics:
Group 2 characteristics:
- strongly disagrees with: My brigade has fewer than 10 active members
- strongly agrees with: My brigade creates new civic technologists.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade solves local problems with the tools of technology, locally.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade provides digital services and capacity to local nonprofits starved for these resources.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade scales Code for America products and principles.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to push back on local government when we see systemic inefficiencies and inequities in service delivery.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to serve as a partner and champion of government partners.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to serve as a partner & champion for traditionally marginalized groups who are otherwise underserved by local government.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to be seen as a go-to resource for digital expertise among local community groups.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to develop tech solutions that are scalable across our local government partners.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to develop technology that expands the impact of local social justice groups.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to augment or expand our local government’s digital capacity.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to use tech to elevate & amplify the intrinsic knowledge of our local marginalized & underrepresented communities.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to partner with and learn from local government when we see systemic inefficiencies and inequities in service delivery
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to raise the visibility of issues of equitable service delivery in our community.
- strongly agrees with: I believe brigades are most effective when working in partnership with local, community based organizations.
- strongly agrees with: CfA should partner with existing open source projects for good, like Mozilla Fdn, Wikimedia, etc
Group 3 characteristics:
- strongly disagrees with: My brigade has more than 50 active members
- strongly agrees with: I attended my first brigade meeting over 2 years ago.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade creates new civic technologists.
- strongly disagrees with: My brigade provides digital services and capacity to local government starved for these resources.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to push back on local government when we see systemic inefficiencies and inequities in service delivery.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to serve as a partner & champion for traditionally marginalized groups who are otherwise underserved by local government.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to be seen as a go-to resource for digital expertise among local community groups.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to develop tech solutions that are scalable across our local government partners.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to augment or expand our local government’s digital capacity.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to partner with and learn from local government when we see systemic inefficiencies and inequities in service delivery
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to raise the visibility of issues of equitable service delivery in our community.
- strongly agrees with: I believe brigades are most effective when working in partnership with local, community based organizations.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade does projects as experiments that push government to view its own mandate in those areas differently.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade doesn't do enough to center the voices of those our technology most impacts.
- strongly disagrees with: Technologists aren't always the best people to solve community problems.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade prioritizes amiable government partnerships over community needs.
- strongly agrees with: The "principles and practices of the digital age" have different meaning at local vs national government, nonprofits, and tech companies
- strongly agrees with: CfA should partner with existing open source projects for good, like Mozilla Fdn, Wikimedia, etc
- strongly agrees with: Members of my brigade would appreciate being matched to projects that fit their interests and skills, even if they weren't local
- strongly agrees with: We should be spending more time working with and educating elected officials.
- strongly agrees with: My Brigade wants to run regular events in more areas of our city
- strongly agrees with: My Brigade wants to have a sustainable funding model.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade wants volunteers from local private technology companies.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade has the capacity to pursue multiple projects.
- strongly agrees with: Not formally, but how we do everything: learning through doing.
- strongly agrees with: Our community needs a brigade because our city IT department uses every excuse to gatekeep and build power for themselves over the people.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade is getting better at working with people-powered community partners.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade has said they want to share their work/learnings, since every insight & every code snippet has the power to make us all better.
- strongly disagrees with: My brigade has become preoccupied with requiring projects to be politically correct. Not just do good government.
- strongly agrees with: My brigade struggles to complete projects.
- strongly agrees with: I want my brigade to practice age equity in its recruitment to achieve diversity of experience in its project teams.
Any idea what went south?