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Make sense of both sides of the argument - introducing Wrangl

Make sense of both sides of the argument - introducing Wrangl

Wrangl is a new service I've built that helps you visualise debates in an easy to read and navigate style. In May, the UK will be having a referendum on the potential use of the Alternative Vote for choosing our MPs. I wasn't impressed with the level of the debate elsewhere that I found online, and I found it difficult to make sense of the various one-sided (and in some cases factually incorrect) arguments. Each of these arguments and counter-arguments is clickable, and displays the argument with a link and some text. Anyone can create one of these using Wrangl. You sign in with one of your social profiles (twitter, facebook, etc.) and start a debate. For those interested in the how to, this is a Sinatra application, hosted on Heroku. Markup is in HAML and styling in SCSS with Compass. The graphical display uses JQuery and Raphael.js.

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Sinatra, Heroku, HAML, SCSS, Compass, jQuery, Raphael.js