[FRIAM] gerrymandering algorithm question

[David Eric Smith]

Don’t know if it is redundant with material somewhere in this post already, but someone I have met who works in this space (mathematics and quantitative social science of gerrymandering) is Wendy K. Tam Cho at UIUC.
http://cho.pol.illinois.edu/wendy/ <http://cho.pol.illinois.edu/wendy/>

I found a talk she gave at SFI sometime last summer thoroughly enjoyable, for its blend of enjoyment of math and appreciation of the specialist domain knowledge that the political practitioners have on the ground.  I believe she gave lectures at the summer school, though I was not there to see them.   If this material is on-line, perhaps some of it can be found.

Best,

Eric


> On Nov 2, 2018, at 9:22 AM, cody dooderson <d00d3rs0n at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The other day a puzzle about gerrymandering was shown to me. It is on the web at https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rig-the-election-with-math/ <https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rig-the-election-with-math/> . The 5x5 puzzle is doable by hand but the 14x10 seems too complex, and ripe for some computer assistance. What kind of algorithm would people use for it? Is there an optimal way to gerrymander the entire country?
> In order to qualify this question as complex or philosophical enough for FRIAM, maybe i should  speculate about how I think that ranked choice voting would be better in terms of gerrymandering than what we currently use. My gut instinct is that ranked-choice would be less predictable and could possibly deter the gerrymanderers. 
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