Redistricter Discussion and Map Thread

[bagelman]

I don't remember asking people about their highest level of college completed when I worked for the Census Bureau. Where does this precise data come from?

I do appreciate including 2012 numbers, I think DRA used to have that but threw it away for no good reason (for every state but Kansas for some reason). What other elections are included before 2016?

[bagelman]

I noticed they raised prices up to $8/month. I tried the demo (OK) and there are still some bugs needing squashed. Sometimes there was a leftover of about 3000 people that were not able to be included in a district that should be at-large. Sometimes there were issues in transferring an area from one district to another.

[bagelman]

I decided to sign up and it works great on my new, much more powerful desktop. Still has its fair share of flaws of course, there's no undo button and I don't think you can renumber districts.

The ability to draw multiple states at once has huge potential. Imagine being able to draw a nationwide map. You can't do that yet but hopefully that's just because they're ironing out the kinks.

[bagelman]

The results for Michigan 2000 Presidential are listed as 2,003,245 (167,173 missing) Gore, 1,771,215 Bush (181,924 missing), 98,831 other. The overall margin is D+5.99, a swing of D+0.85 from final results. A disclaimer should be added if the dataset cannot be complete.

[bagelman]

Does it run in browser or does the software have to be downloaded?

In-browser