Crowdpac.com: using data science to help inform voters at election time

"Crowdpac uses data to inform its recommendations for federal and state races. It analyzes stated positions on key issues, an incumbent’s voting record and campaign contributions to score each candidate.

Voters take a quick, three-step quiz to determine where they fall on the political spectrum, from liberal to conservative, and identify which issues they care most passionately about — say, health care, immigration or marriage rights. Based on these responses, Crowdpac generates individualized recommendations for those politicians whose views most closely match the voter’s own.

Crowdpac’s online voter guide debuts with California’s open primary this Tuesday, in which the two top candidates in each race, irrespective of party, face off in the general election. A mobile app should be available by this fall."