How cicada.buzz works

How cicada.buzz works

Polls

Our polls are designed to gather diverse and unfiltered perspectives from any sized population, helping to identify consensus on various issues. Unlike traditional surveys, our polls collect individual stories by asking open-ended questions and then follow-up questions based on the user's response.

Poll Image

Completely optional but can be used to display a company logo or picture to represent the poll.

Poll Headline

This can be the general topic being addressed by the poll, your organization's name, or the name of a related event.

Poll Prompt

This is the initial question being presented by the poll to users.


Stories

These are the raw unfiltered thoughts of the users responding to the poll.


Topics

After a user finishes sharing their story and clicks 'Generate,' a list of topics is created based on their input. They are then asked to select up to five topics that are most important to them. If they notice a topic they didn't mention, they can delete it by tapping the topic text and then selecting the delete icon.

A Top 5 topic is worth 3 points.
A regular topic is worth 1 point.
A deleted topic is worth 0 points.


Themes

Once a user submits their story and topics, we group similar topics together to form a theme. These themes are then ranked based on the total points assigned to each topic within the theme.

Positive Themes

These are created using only topics that have been classified as positive by sentiment analysis.

Negative Themes

These are created using only topics that have been classified as negative by sentiment analysis.

Custom Themes

These can be created by the poll owner to test predictions/assumptions and see how they rank on the leaderboard.
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