Ask HN: Is there a way to quantify opinions into a tangible tree/graph?

1 points by trexen ↗ HN
Take any given topic, say political for example.

Say the president does or says something.

Is there a way to quantify everyone's opinion about this into a tangible set of statements that you can agree or disagree with?

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There are many ways to do it.

You could load documents containing facts, opinions or other information into a database and then add another "table" that links one thing to another so we can say that "opinion B is a response to opinion A" or that any sort of relationship exists between them.

I think this even more interesting when we apply it to a set of documents that have business, engineering or science value.