Record-first structure
Promise records live in a JSON data file with fields for status, topic, sources, confidence, audit notes, and evidence chains.
Project case study
NZ Political Promise Tracker Case Study
A civic data tracker for New Zealand political commitments, built around source links, outcome context, confidence notes, and a clear record schema.
Project snapshot
A structured way to inspect public commitments
NZ Political Promise Tracker is a static project note by John Finnerty. It presents New Zealand political promises with party and politician context, outcome status, delivery reasons, confidence scores, source links, and review notes.
Status: project note and source-archive reference. It is a personal public-interest software project, not an official register, political authority, or complete historical database.
Source-linked records
Confidence notes
Review-needed flags
New Zealand civic data
Civic information problem
Make promises, outcomes, and evidence easier to compare
Political commitments can be hard to revisit after the campaign moment has passed. This project explores a practical interface for keeping the promise, the later outcome, and the supporting source trail together in one inspectable record.
Source-aware wording
The project distinguishes primary, secondary, archived, weak, and review-needed evidence instead of presenting every record as equally settled.
Transparent limits
The README describes the current dataset as a growing first pass, not a complete historical register.
Source-evidence approach
A tracker designed around caveats as well as conclusions
The strongest professional signal in this project is not a political conclusion. It is the method: a clear data model, visible source links, status categories, confidence scoring, evidence timeline fields, and notes for records that still need review.
Status and confidence
Records can be marked kept, partial, broken, active, delayed, reversed, or unknown, with a confidence score for the assessment.
Evidence trail
Each record can carry labelled source links, source-quality fields, audit-stage labels, and event-based evidence-chain entries.
Review discipline
The data model supports review flags, contradictory evidence notes, paraphrase reasons, archived source fields, and local snapshot fields.
Capability evidence
Skills reflected by the project
NZ Political Promise Tracker supports a professional profile around civic-tech information design, static web deployment, structured data, evidence handling, searchable interfaces, and careful public documentation.
Civic data
Source evidence
Structured JSON
Filtering UI
Audit notes
Static sites
source archive
New Zealand context
Evidence links
Project note references
These are the current public references for the project. This case study does not claim institutional endorsement, political neutrality beyond the documented method, a complete historical register, audience numbers, client outcomes, awards, or public-sector endorsement.
Live NZ Political Promise Tracker
Public source archive version of the civic data tracker.
Source archive
Public source archive and README snapshot for the tracker.
Short project profile
Concise finnerty.me page linking the project page, source archive, and case study.
Project hub
More software and project notes by John Finnerty.
Related project context
Connected project-note work
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About John Finnerty
Current professional profile and project note context.
John Finnerty New Zealand
New Zealand profile connecting civic-data projects, public evidence, and technical consulting context.
Project proof loop
Keep this case study connected to the wider proof system
This project page is part of a public evidence loop: source archive metadata, project references, case-study notes, project hub links, and maintenance checklists should tell the same careful status story.
Project proof system
How the project hub connects source archives, project pages, case studies, and profile evidence.
public source archive proof path
Reading path for source archive metadata, project pages, canonical URLs, screenshots, and public profile links.
Project SEO checklist
Checklist for README links, homepage fields, titles, canonicals, schema, and project evidence.
Technical SEO audit checklist
Audit path for crawlability, structured data, internal links, and search-visible proof signals.
Local launch tool
Practical checklist for publishing small static sites, proof pages, analytics, and handover notes.
Public build note generator
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