CivicLytics

Welfare and social unrest: citizens express themselves in real time

The IDB Group is the leading source of development finance for Latin America and the Caribbean. It helps to improve lives by providing financial solutions and development knowhow to public and private sector clients. The group comprises the IDB, which has worked with governments for more than 60 years; IDB Invest, which serves the private sector; and IDB Lab, which tests innovative ways to enable more inclusive growth.

Purpose

This AI tool allows you to understand complex civic issues by listening to the perceptions and concerns of millions of citizens in Latin America and the Caribbean in real time. We process and analyze open civic data that citizens express on the Internet (social networks, blogs, chatbox). From the IDB Group, we add this information by supporting governments, citizens, and the private sector to drive inclusive solutions to local and regional recovery.

Data

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comments analyzed since March 2020
26
countries covered
5
languages analyzed
14
COVID-19 categories tracked

What are people talking about?

Overview across countries

Click on a category to see it on the map

Proportion:

Shows in which country the selected category is a priority, compared to other categories in that country. Values are proportions (%) of the conversation, where all the categories sum to 100% for each country.

Rising proportion:

Shows in which country the selected category is a 'rising priority'. 'Priority' refers to the proportion of the conversation for that category, compared to the other categories in that country. 'Rising' means the change in priority, comparing the last 7 days with the 7 days prior to that.

Proportion (%) and rising proportion (%) of the conversation.

Intensity per country

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Proportion of this category of conversation compared to other categories in that country.

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The limits, colors, denominations and other information shown in these charts do not imply any judgment on the part of the BID regarding the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of said limits.

Where are the differences?

Comparison of how interest in topics varies across countries

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Proportion (%) of the conversation per country.

Highlights where the outlier countries are, according to proportion of the conversation per category.

Values are proportions (%) of the conversation, where all the categories sum to 100% for each country. Shows which countries have a category with a high proportion of the conversation, compared to the proportion of conversation that category has in other countries.

Heatmap colouring is per category, i.e. the minimum and maximum % value per column are the minimum and maximum colour highlights.


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