I’m pumped to share this with you. Because I have been working vigorously on it. And I think you’re going to love it.

Today, I am releasing a new political tool called DonaldTracker. DonaldTracker is a tool that will track America’s opinion and perception of Trump over the course of his term(s). Here’s how it works.

Every single Friday, our team will post the latest news surrounding President Trump. As an example, our first week will be his inauguration speech. The second might be a bill he signs or a deal he withdraws or negotiates. We are working right now to define a set of criteria that each new piece of news must follow. We will publish that as soon as we have it ready. Our promise is to deliver it by January 30th. We want to ask around and get different perspectives before publishing.

From there, our users will vote from 0–10 (0 being the worst, 10 being the best) how good/bad they think that action is for the country. Each user gets one vote and we aggregate the scores and present them in realtime.

But there is more. Let me explain the process first.

Creating an account

Since our site works by gathering data from users, we have them make an account first to prevent people from voting twice. Make sure you type in an email you have access to because you will have to verify your email.

Our Sign Up page will ask you for a few things. It will ask you for your email and a password. You will use these to login to the site.

We will also ask for your Gender and Age. These are details that we believe everybody is comfortable sharing.

All the data we ask for below the More details gets a bit more tricky. Not everybody is comfortable sharing their Income, Political Party or Ethnicity. Because of this, all of these inputs are optional. Just choose “Prefer not to say” under each dropdown for the ones you don’t wish to share.

All the data you share with us only lives on DonaldTracker. We don’t use ANY of the data that you give us to 3rd parties and we don’t use your data to serve you ads. It is strictly just for DonaldTracker.

Another thing. All the data you provide is anonymous. Nobody will be able to see your votes and personal data. We take your data, add it to a pool, mix it all together, and present the mixture. That was a terrible analogy.

Why we ask for data

We ask for data to provide statistics unlike no other. Even though it seems like I’m talking like a salesman here, it’s true. Without any outside data, we could give a general score…which we do. From 0–10, from everybody, over time, how good/bad is Trump. That’s pretty cool, and still is better than approval ratings which only give two options; but it’s not that exciting.

When we get data from you such as your ethnicity, income, political party, and the state that you live in, we can start to provide some really awesome scores. Like, what is the score of Republican African American Women under 20 in New York? I don’t know about you, but I really just want to know. And that is where we provide value.

If you create an account with us and login, you will see some interesting stats on the homepage. These change everyday so make sure to keep checking. It looks like this:

This is not real data. Just demo data.

We are working on a feature right now for you to put in whatever criteria you want and see the current score, as well as a graph of the score through time. We hope that this data will allow you to understand America even a little bit better. To understand what different groups of people around the world are feeling about President Trump.

The challenge

Here’s the big challenge. This data that we can hopefully provide, this very specific and interesting data; we don’t have it yet. In order to get people to sign up, they’re going to want to see this really cool data which again, we just don’t have yet. I live in Washington State in an area that has a high average income compared to the rest of the US. That’s where I am going to start to get users, but we need you to help us out. To get more diverse perspectives on the site allows us to provide not just more value for you, but a more accurate score. So if you can, sign up. Check into our site every day, week, or month and vote.

Bias

I want to be completely transparent with this entire site and that includes acknowledging possible bias. Here is what you should know. Anyone that will use this site will have access to an internet connection. While most Americans do have access, not all do. We won’t be getting their opinion. Keep that in mind. Secondly, we can only post the latest news once a week. Every Friday. A lot of stuff can happen in a week. We are going to use our best judgment as well as get opinions from people from the far left to the far right to come up with what we post every single week. Some weeks, we will get liberals bashing us for not posting this other story. Some weeks, we will get conservatives bashing us for not posting another story. It’s just part of the process. But let me be clear when I say that we will try as hard to not have bias. Our site will be valuable if we can get an accurate score. Bias just makes our product worse. When you vote on a piece of news, you will see this:

This Medium post was written on Jan. 18th. The text in this screenshot above is just sample text.

We will provide a summary that won’t have any opinion at all. Just what happened. We will then link you to some other news sources to read about the topic. The 4 different sources we provide will offer diverse perspectives. If you have the time, read them. It’s good to understand what the other side is thinking. If you don’t have time to read those, we will have one Pro and one Con. Finally, we will have a video or 2 relating to the topic and that’s it. Nowhere in there are we stating our opinions and that is the goal. Now yes, there is room for bias in terms of how much we praise or criticize the action in the Pros/Cons. There could potentially be bias in the videos that we pick or the news sources we share too. But again, our goal is to be as unbiased as possible. If you want to do your own research…please go ahead!

Now, if you think that we are going too far, which I know some people will from both sides, contact us. Tweet us @DonaldTracker. We will respond to every tweet. We always want our site to be better.

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So that’s it. I’m super nervous but I hope you all find it enjoyable and interesting. It’s going to be intriguing to see how America views Trump over the next 4 or 8 years. It’s up to you now.