Princeton Gerrymandering Project To do all this, he's using the simulation packages developed by ALARM Project, as well as Dave's Redistricting, and working with @CervasJ. Hear him tell about it! Princeton Gerrymandering Project Electoral Innovation Lab samwang.substack.com/p/redistrictin…

Our director, Kosuke Imai, has a new opinion piece with Ruth Greenwood out in @CommonWealthMag entitled "Using big data to make elections fairer," available at: commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/using-…. alarm-redist.org/posts/2023-10-…

Kosuke Imai and Ruth Greenwood of @harvard argue in this op-ed that their data viz resources are invaluable for the public to see the partisan skews of redistricting plans commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/using-…

redist 4.2.0 is now on CRAN. This release is mostly internal changes and cleanups, but it also includes support for multiple independent scoring functions in `redist_shortburst()`, as detailed in McCartan 2023, arxiv.org/abs/2304.00427.

ICYMI: In December, students from our summer research program wrote guest posts for our blog, detailing their analyses of redistricting in Virginia Beach, Charlotte, and Louisville. Take a look here: alarm-redist.org

#rstats 📦alarmdata ("Download, Merge, and Process Redistricting Data") is now on CRAN. It provides a way to download and use our simulated plans with your data. Install with: install.packages("alarmdata") For an introduction and examples, read here: alarm-redist.org/posts/2024-03-…

Our letter "Census officials must constructively engage with independent evaluations" by Christopher T. Kenny, PhD, Cory McCartan, Tyler Simko, and Kosuke Imai is out in PNAS. Read it here: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New Jersey’s “county line” ballot design distorts voter choice by giving party-preferred candidates privileged positions on the ballot. Nicholas Stephanopoulos and I have an Op-Ed today NJ Spotlight News arguing that voters should support eliminating the system: njspotlightnews.org/2024/03/op-ed-…

Congratulations Dr. Simko!

🚨New working paper🚨 Redistricting Reforms Reduce Gerrymandering by Constraining Partisan Actors by Cory McCartan, Christopher T. Kenny, PhD, Tyler Simko, Emma Ebowe, Michael Y. Zhao, and Kosuke Imai. Read a summary here: alarm-redist.org/posts/2024-07-… Or the paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2407.11336