Category: Governance

• Developing Ensemble Methods for Initial Districting Plan Evaluation

  

  Project leads: Daryl DeFord, Assistant Professor of Data Analytics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Washington State University Data scientists: Bernease Herman and Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: Rowana Ahmed, Katherine Chang, Ryan Goehrung, Michael Souffrant. Get the participant bios here. Project Summary: Gerrymandering, the drawing of legislative boundaries for improper purposes, is a fundamental threat to…

• Detecting of Vote Dilution: New tools and methods for protecting voting rights

  

  Project leads: Matt A. Barreto, Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies, and Faculty Director of the Voting Rights Project at University of California, Los Angeles; and Loren Collingwood, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of California, Riverside Data scientists: Scott Henderson and Spencer Wood DSSG fellows: Juandalyn Burke, Ari Decter-Frain, Hikari Murayama, Pratik Sachdeva Participant…