Interactives

These visualizations allow you to explore concepts like compactness and proportionality.

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  District-Shortening Flow

  Zachary I. Schutzman

  08 July 2019

  Use curve-shortening flow to analyze the geometric shape of electoral districts, with interactive widgets and visualizations.

• MIT student project: Visualizing Gerrymandering

  MGGG

  14 June 2019

  As a part of the MIT EECS course 6.894: Interactive Data Visualization, MIT students Chuyan Millie Huang, Wenwei Vicky Liu, and Kim-Anh-Nhi Nguyen created an interactive tool that analyzes ensembles of districting plans for Virginia and Pennsylvania. They were mentored by MGGG’s Daryl R. DeFord and Justin Solomon. Try it out yourself here.

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  Redistricting Gridlandia

  Zachary I. Schutzman and MGGG

  01 September 2018

  An interactive overview of the combinatorics of redistricting and the principles of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC).