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Sentimeter · the search engine that scores

What is Kenya saying about SHA?

Sentimeter reads what is published in public, news, blogs, video comments and open channels, and scores it. Search a subject and see media and the public side by side, with every number traced to the items behind it. Track a subject and its history follows it.

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Public data onlyMeasurement, not prediction300 items or withheld
318k
public items scored
136k
of them public comments
1,756
outlets and channels read
2021
the history reaches back to
Sentimeter warehouse, as at 12 Oct 2026 · public data only
02 · Media and the public

What is written,
and what is said back

Every result puts two readings side by side: what outlets and channels publish, and what people write in public comments. Often they agree. When they do not, the gap is the story, and you can see it at a glance.

One scale for everything

From −5, strongly negative, to +5, strongly positive, with neutral at the centre line. A subject reads the same way whatever it is.

Two readings, never blended

Media and public are counted apart and shown apart, each with its own count, so one never hides the other.

The count is always on the bar

You see how many items stand behind a figure before you read the figure itself.

03 · Over time

A year in one line

Switch to 12 months and each month becomes a point. Where a month has too few items, the line breaks and says why, rather than drawing a number it cannot stand behind.

SHA health care · 12 monthsMediaPublicWithheld monthIllustrative
+10−1−2−3−4NOVDECJANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCT20252026FEB · PUBLICwithheld · < 300OCT 2026Media −0.9Public −2.6
Shaded band: below neutral.Point at any month to read its value and its count.Monthly values are illustrative, not real readings.
04 · The evidence

The items behind the bar

Open any bar and you get the list it was counted from: the outlet or channel, the date, the sentence that was scored and its score, each with a link to where it was published. If you doubt a figure, you can read it item by item.

What each item carries
  • The outlet or channel, and its kind
  • The date it was published
  • The sentence that was scored
  • Its score, from −5 to +5
  • A link to the original
05 · The floor

300 items, or no number at all

A figure drawn from a handful of posts is noise dressed as a finding. So below 300 items, Sentimeter withholds the figure and shows you the reason and the count instead. It never pads a thin subject with a model's guess.

  • Widen the range: 12 months or 5 years often clears the floor.
  • Broaden the subject: a county rather than a single ward.
  • Track it: as items arrive, the figure appears once it passes 300.
ShownSHA health care · 6,230 items, well over the floorIllustrative
06 · Where it reads

Public sources only.
Nothing behind a login.

Sentimeter reads what anyone can read: published news, blogs, comments under public videos and open channels. It is kept apart from election data, and it never touches the members, ballots or registers of the organisations that run elections on PollGuard.

It reads
  • What outlets and bloggers publish in the open
  • Comments people leave in public, under public videos
  • Channels anyone can open without an invitation
It never reads
  • Private messages, closed groups or anything behind a login
  • Members, rolls or ballots from elections run on PollGuard
  • Phone numbers or contact lists
07 · The six laws

Six rules it will not bend

They are printed on the engine itself, and every screen of Sentimeter is built to keep them. If a figure would break one, it is not shown.

  1. LAW 01No number is a model’s guess.Every figure is counted from scored items that exist and can be opened.
  2. LAW 02300 items or it is withheld.Below the floor, you see the count and the reason, never a figure.
  3. LAW 03Every AI sentence cites its cell.Written summaries point to the exact figure they describe.
  4. LAW 04Public data only.News, blogs, video comments and open channels. Nothing private.
  5. LAW 05Measurement, not prediction.It reports what was said. It does not forecast who will win.
  6. LAW 06History is kept.A tracked subject keeps its past, back to 2021 where items exist.
08 · Who reads it

Built for the people
who need to listen

Sentimeter is built into PollGuard. Signed-in teams use the full engine; a free national tracker is open to everyone.

PARTIES & CAMPAIGNS
Alongside Campaign HQThe secretariat reads the issues its members and the public are talking about, next to its own register and coverage, and tracks the subjects that matter to the campaign.
CIVIL SOCIETY
Research and observationResearchers and observers follow an issue through the year with the evidence attached, and can cite the items behind any figure they publish.
EVERYONE · FREE
Signal, the public trackerA free national tracker, open to the public, at pollguard.africa/signal.
09 · Limits

What Sentimeter does not do

A measurement is only useful if you know where it stops. Here is where this one stops.

  • It does not forecast. No winners, no vote shares, no probabilities. It measures what was said, not what will happen.
  • It does not read private data. No private messages, closed groups, contact lists, or anything from the elections run on PollGuard.
  • It is not an opinion poll. It reads people who chose to write in public. That is not a sample of every Kenyan, and it does not claim to be.
  • It does not fill gaps. Under 300 items there is no figure, and no model is asked to imagine one.
10 · Questions

Straight answers

Can it tell us who will win?

No. It measures what was said in public. It makes no forecasts, and we will not claim it can.

Where do the numbers come from?

From scored public items: news, blogs, video comments and open channels. Every bar opens the list it was counted from.

Why was my subject withheld?

The range held fewer than 300 items. Widen the range, broaden the subject, or track it until enough items arrive.

Does it use our members’ data?

No. Sentimeter’s public web data is kept separately from election data, and it never reads rolls, ballots or contacts.

How far back does it go?

To 2021. As at 12 Oct 2026 the warehouse holds 318k scored items from 1,756 outlets and channels.

Is there a free version?

Yes. Signal, the free public tracker, is at pollguard.africa/signal. The full engine, with search and tracking, is for signed-in teams.

Who writes the summaries?

An AI writes them, and every sentence cites the figure it describes. You can always check the sentence against its cell.

How do we get access?

Book a briefing. We will show it on the subjects you care about and set up access for your team.

See your subjects, measured.

Bring three subjects to a briefing. We will search them with you, open the items behind each bar, and show you where the floor holds.

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