Building Poll Vault (http://pollvault.ai) — AI-powered polling intelligence. Data scientist, data visualizer, pollster and (adjunct) professor. Husband, father, dog-owner, musician, and prolific reader. Northeast DC via Northern New Jersey.https://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mqrw7psqm22fDC people PSA: the State Fair exhibit at the Renwick is excellent. They've got a life-size butter cow! (Among many other very cool, very creative things).16 Jul 2026 18:59 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrw7psqm22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mqmdvqpuac2iE Pluribus Unsure - the latest Due Data looks at recent polling around America's 250th, and it reads less like a birthday card and more like a mid-life inventory: https://pollvault.ai/newsletters/2026-07-11-e-pluribus-unsure14 Jul 2026 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmdvqpuac2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mqcygp5nnk2k80 years! Incredible. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jul 2026 20:29 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqcygp5nnk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mq7r2captk23This morning @pollvault.bsky.social found a rare but well done survey that really raises the stakes on consumer confidence: The Meat Demand Monitor https://www.oklahomafarmreport.com/2026/07/08/dr-glynn-tonsor-june-meat-demand-monitor-shows-signs-of-improving-consumer-confidence/ (cc: @aedwardslevy.bsky.social )09 Jul 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7r2captk23https://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3moixtkmjns2dPride and Precision - this week's Due Data looks at a dozen-plus surveys on where America actually stands on LGBTQ rights. You may have seen some bad Gallup numbers on same-sex marriage, but there are a couple issues with how they do it... https://pollvault.ai/newsletters/2026-06-13-pride-and-precision17 Jun 2026 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3moixtkmjns2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mm67e2tc622pThis week's Due Data polling newsletter builds off the Trump China summit last week by looking at recent China polling: "Frenemy of the State " - 10 Polls that point to a Long March for Trump. https://pollvault.ai/newsletters/2026-05-17-frenemy-of-the-state19 May 2026 01:09 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm67e2tc622phttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mlwarx7ebk2eJust a bonkers stat from @dkthomp.bsky.social trends essay: Share of 12th graders who “ever go on dates” declined by 47% since the 1980s; the share who “visit friends weekly” has declined 22%; and the share who “go to monthly parties” is down 40% https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-6-megatrends-of-202615 May 2026 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwarx7ebk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mlri5aiifk24Best AI piece I've read recently: "The way we use [AI] matters more than whether we use [it]." Tool use: you know what the answer should look like, and the AI helps you get there faster. Cognitive outsourcing: you don't, and you ship whatever it gives you. https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/ https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/?utm_source=dataelixir&utm_campaign=learning_machines13 May 2026 23:41 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlri5aiifk24https://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mlrgt7mizs24This NYT op-ed on our electricity use and the grid has some extremely compelling and well done visualizations. Worth your time (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/27/opinion/electricity-power-grid-infrastructure.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fFA.SeRU.xNXWTJ2Fn41h&smid=url-share13 May 2026 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlrgt7mizs24https://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mlon7gxz5c26Check out how Andy's Pizza, a local DC shop, is using AI - there just isn't enough conversation around what AI can do for small businesses like Andy's, so this is really worth a read: https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2026/05/12/andys-pizza-ai-dc-restaurants12 May 2026 20:34 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlon7gxz5c26https://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mlls2xwues2tYesterday's Due Data looked at 9 polls on motherhood, family, and the work of raising kids in 2026. The mothers doing the work are running on empty, and the policies they say would help are popular but not urgent enough to pass. https://pollvault.ai/newsletters/2026-05-10-the-mom-squeeze11 May 2026 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlls2xwues2thttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3ml74purxds2gPoll Vault runs a team of AI agents every morning. Not one model with a prompt — a pipeline of specialized agents, each with a specific job. Here's what they do:06 May 2026 16:29 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml74purxds2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3ml233t2vwc27New Due Data: a love letter to polling B-sides. Nine specialized-population polls from one week — the surveys that score 5–6 on our relevance scale. Too niche for cable, too useful to skip. A tour 🧵04 May 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml233t2vwc27https://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mksgdhilqs2iThe Economist built an interactive model that estimates UK party-vote probabilities across 275,000 demographic combinations. A masterclass in making a cross-tab model legible: https://www.economist.com/interactive/2025-british-politics/build-a-voter01 May 2026 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksgdhilqs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mkqagfli322gThis is an excellent and highly insightful data-driven look into how fatherhood has changed in the last two decades, aligning well with my own personal experience, and it's got brilliant charts as well: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-do-richer-dads-spend-more-time30 Apr 2026 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqagfli322ghttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mkpx6u63lk22Poll Vault's AI agents ran this morning and found 23 new polls across 10 topics, including: - a TX poll w/Talarico ahead + 10pp jump in voters rating the economy as worse than a year ago (46% Feb > 56% now) - a Ragnar Research poll with Trump underwater in districts he won in 2024 pollvault.ai https://pollvault.ai30 Apr 2026 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpx6u63lk22https://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mknlqrfpcs25Synthetic respondents are like teen sex: everyone's talking about it but nobody's doing it, and anyone that is actually doing it, is probably doing it (very) badly.29 Apr 2026 17:10 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknlqrfpcs25https://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mknlizwyus25The feature I use most in my own product: the daily email digest. Every morning at 7am, new polls on my topics land in my inbox. Headline, key findings, source link. Takes 3 minutes to know what dropped overnight. I used to spend 45 minutes on that same scan and still miss things. pollvault.ai https://pollvault.ai29 Apr 2026 17:06 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknlizwyus25https://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mkihyxmn7k2yHad it in my calendar to post about Due Data tday, but this incredibly kind post from Kevin serves as a much better alternative - thank you! [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Apr 2026 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkihyxmn7k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mkao2nziak2eSure there's polling on Iran, Medicare and Trump approval, but you really go to Poll Vault for the Arbor Day polls, right? 😂24 Apr 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkao2nziak2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mk66orwoes2dToday's daily digest from Poll Vault, 9 new polls across 7 tracked topics, including a lot of new lows for Trump job approval:23 Apr 2026 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk66orwoes2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mk4mnvcafm2fThe beauty of multimedia online polling is that you can do stuff like this: [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2026 23:11 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4mnvcafm2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mk4d3uoets25Here’s some context for these new numbers generated from PollVault.AI [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2026 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4d3uoets25https://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mk4auazhjk2pPace of change in AI is insane - a panelist at the Miami Tech Summit: “what AI has gotten really good at in the last two weeks…”22 Apr 2026 19:40 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4auazhjk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mk3mjyji7c2fIn a few hours I'm on a panel at Miami Tech Summit called "Will democracy still be human as artificial intelligence rewires campaigns and our government?" Normally panel prep = an hour of Googling and half-remembered polls. This morning I tried something different. 🧵22 Apr 2026 13:36 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3mjyji7c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mjzdzpuozc2fHere's what Poll Vault has to say about today's redistricting vote in Virginia:21 Apr 2026 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzdzpuozc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mjzd6u53wc2fPoll Vault's AI agents ran this morning at 6am ET. Today they found: - 18 new polls across 10 topics - NBC News Poll on Trump & Iraq, Immigration - Not 1, but 3 (!) different polls on the CA Gov primary This happens every day, automatically. pollvault.ai https://pollvault.ai21 Apr 2026 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzd6u53wc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mjwh3f2rhc2fI built a SaaS product powered by AI agents that tracks public polling data. It's called Poll Vault and it's now in beta. Every morning a pipeline of agents search dozens of sources, reads the content, analyzes it, and delivers you new polls — organized by topic, scored by relevance. pollvault.ai https://pollvault.ai20 Apr 2026 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwh3f2rhc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexlundry.bsky.social/post/3mijulxayas22Who said AI can't do great things? https://fortune.com/2026/03/30/guinness-beer-prices-ireland-anthropic-claude-ai/ https://fortune.com/2026/03/30/guinness-beer-prices-ireland-anthropic-claude-ai/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top02 Apr 2026 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:ubsmtgedubo7wcaexb3nsq7l/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijulxayas22