Thanks for asking!

• Personally, I am interested in nowcasting the public's level of trust - in institutions and each other. The purpose of the funds I am requesting here is to spur others to propose their own nowcasting projects. I hope to receive a wide variety of proposals, and I will choose those with the most (subjectively) interesting questions.

• If you fund this project, you can be sure of transparency and standardization. All of the projects will have the same, simple format: daily, five-item surveys delivered to a random sample of American adults. Every one of the projects will immediately and automatically publish analysis, analysis code and the raw data daily to the open web.

• Prolific Academic. I investigated MTurk, Google Surveys, and providers like Qualtrics panels; Prolific currently offers the best quality/price in the space. Others' evaluation is in agreement: Eyal, P., David, R., Andrew, G., Zak, E., & Ekaterina, D. (2021). Data quality of platforms and panels for online behavioral research. Behavior Research Methods , 1 – 20.

@wasabipesto

That is intended as a demonstration project. The tool makes dashboards, but when it is done, it is just another github repository. Running a daily survey (on a zeitgesty topic) would test the system and visibly show off what it can do. @Jason