A dashboard for the storms

The greys in analytics can make metrics appear overwhelming. 

So, we should keep it simple when observing federal politicians' work. 

We could set up a basic dashboard, start with simple, and let the analytics, formularies, and methodology get fine-tuned with the pressures of time. We could observe for general work, and detail any healthcare materials involved.

A dashboard could be brief, visualized in a one page format. This could detail:

-Specifics of legislation effort. How much of a politician’s work supports constituent preference in legislation? How much of a politician’s time and resource was dedicated to one piece of legislation, how much of news headlines and media time did the legislation receive, how much politician media time was dedicated to this piece of legislation, and how many other pieces have gone unaddressed during the theatrics of it all? Where are the healthcare materials in all this construction?

-Specifics of constituent efforts. How much time is engaged with constituents, and how much feedback has been sought and responded to? How much of it revolves around health and wellbeing?

-Specifics of work ethics and work culture. Be critical of legislator action. Compare the theatrics of celebration and success in the political profession alongside everyday expectations of other professions. Analyze the time between one project completion and the next project start. Most jobs require us to move on from one completion to another project or task every day. Analyze the time between work tasks for federal legislators, as well as time spent with indirect travel or federal foreign connections, so that we may begin to address cultural disconnect in their workload. Assess how much of their workload involves health.

-Specifics of honest work. What efforts have circumvented the truth, and for how long, and for what reasoning? What efforts have sought to disclose the truth, and have sought to ensure the public remains as educated as possible in truth?

-Specifics of conflict of interest, donors and foreign interest, and specifics of how healthcare is bargained, negotiated and traded. Remember: selfishness and superiority in our democracy can get overwhelming. This report could get very detailed, so just start simple.

Legislators interested in prolonging games have quite a bit of time on their hands. Yet, legislative inefficiencies and incompetence continue to stack. 

Let’s simplify, taking grey back to black and white. Let’s disclose a public dashboard that is able to withstand the most deceptive of undisclosed storms.