Redistricter Discussion and Map Thread

[kwabbit]

Overall def enjoy Redistricter. Def has more raw data than DRA, and also the option to draw by block groups is rlly nice for states with awful precincts. It's also nice how you can display by density and stuff. And the multi-state mapping has a lot of potential.

My main complaints so far:

1. It's just slower than DRA. This will probably get worked out overtime as they optimize the software and get better servers. Seriously though, trying to county-fill large counties can take over a minute.
2. No ability to color districts by things such as partisan lean, or to custom-color districts. Honestly, if there was a way to insert a csv file to custom color all districts at once, that would be boss.
3. No ability to add overlays onto an existing map. Honestly, this is arguably one of DRA's strong suits. I think if Redistricter created a better system for building a national map while drawing each state individually, that would be really cool.

These are all things I'm sure they're considering and have been or will work on.

Right now, I'd say Redistricter is better if you want to go into a detailed analysis cause there are so many more data sets, but DRA is still better if you just want mess around building maps and see the partisan result and whatnot.

Most DRA map obsessed people have done everything there is to do at this point. Redistricter adds so many new possibilities because of the additional data. DRA is barely adding anything at this point. They are past the point where they would add education or ancestry.

It is quite slow though. The multi state function is difficult when a big state on its own is slow.

Ye. The only data I could want at this point is just more older (pre-2016) election results. Having 2012 results for every state would be insane.

Also 2010 and if possible 2000 census data would be amazing.

I hope he is able to make it faster as his first priority. Redistricter is more laborious because of the slowness, although I push through because the data is interesting. I wonder if there’s a limit on how well it could work on the web, given that DRA is pretty slow for California as well. Maybe a desktop version could make things faster.

[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.

[kwabbit]

1990, 2000, and 2010 census data was added. It has so much more capability than DRA at this point, but I need a better computer to run it lol. Or the founder needs a better server. He's been working on it on a laptop.

[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.

[BigZuck08]

I subscribed to redistricter a few months back and its worth it for all the data. The only thing annoying is that I have to use a VPN to use the data because my network is blocking the server that Colin stores the data. I was told that he plans to change it to a different server in a few months. The only state thats buggy for me is California.

[BigZuck08]

Colin added 2022 data for Utah as well as the type of marriage/partnership by precinct

[kwabbit]

I subscribed to redistricter a few months back and its worth it for all the data. The only thing annoying is that I have to use a VPN to use the data because my network is blocking the server that Colin stores the data. I was told that he plans to change it to a different server in a few months. The only state thats buggy for me is California.

That's interesting. I am able to use Redistricter on my old, personal laptop but not on my faster work laptop, that might be the reason. DRA works on both.

[redistricter]

Hi,

I'm Colin I run Redistricter, I came across this page on Google and thought I should pop in.

Let me know if you have any questions or recommendations for Redistricter and I'll get back to you, although you should probably contact me via email or Twitter for a faster response.

Thanks!

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

Hi,

I'm Colin I run Redistricter, I came across this page on Google and thought I should pop in.

Let me know if you have any questions or recommendations for Redistricter and I'll get back to you, although you should probably contact me via email or Twitter for a faster response.

Thanks!

Welcome to the forum!

[Atlas Force]

Hi,

I'm Colin I run Redistricter, I came across this page on Google and thought I should pop in.

Let me know if you have any questions or recommendations for Redistricter and I'll get back to you, although you should probably contact me via email or Twitter for a faster response.

Thanks!

Welcome!

Also that makes another big name on Election Twitter who knows about and posts on Atlas.

[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.

[redistricter]

Thanks for letting me know, I've added a disclaimer to that dataset. Thanks.

[ProgressiveModerate]

When using ballot initiatives in a swing map, I wonder if there's a way users can choose what side corresponds with D and R.

For instance in MN 2012 Referendum 1 (to ban gay marriage), it defaults to correspond "Yes" with Democrat and "No" making the swing map somewhat useless.

There are also just ballot initiatives that don't strongly correspond with partisanship so being able to look at a swing map both ways might be interesting.

[redistricter]

That's a good idea. I'll add it to my to-do list.

[redistricter]

I've added some new features in the past couple weeks:

• A tool to build custom elections from demographics
• An election shifter tool
• A 2024 and 2028 guess dataset
• 2023 Kentucky data
• And city select

I tried to include links to this stuff but apparently I don't have enough posts for that

[It’s so Joever]

I've added some new features in the past couple weeks:

• A tool to build custom elections from demographics
• An election shifter tool
• A 2024 and 2028 guess dataset
• 2023 Kentucky data
• And city select

I tried to include links to this stuff but apparently I don't have enough posts for that

Ur my icon

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I've added some new features in the past couple weeks:

• A tool to build custom elections from demographics
• An election shifter tool
• A 2024 and 2028 guess dataset
• 2023 Kentucky data
• And city select

I tried to include links to this stuff but apparently I don't have enough posts for that

You need twenty posts to do links.
If you want to you can put the entire URL in with a space to separate it.
Thank you for your hard work, btw.

[redistricter]

I've added 2022 data to New York!

x dot com/Redistricter/status/1738638053428674641

[redistricter]

Undo and redo have been added!

[Vern]

Thank you for your hard work on this! I love it so much!

[redistricter]

You can make maps like this instantly in Redistricter (no GIS required!)

twitter (dot) com/Redistricter/status/1741257857532588537

(can't post the actual link because I don't have enough posts)

[Vern]

You can make maps like this instantly in Redistricter (no GIS required!)

twitter.com/Redistricter/status/1741257857532588537

(can't post the actual link because I don't have enough posts)

[redistricter]

I've added 16 new elections in Ohio, Utah, and Washington:

Ohio: Issue 1 & Issue 2 from the November 2023 election
Utah: 2012 & 5 statewide races from 2016
Washington: 8 statewide races from 2016

[kwabbit]

I think I developed a pretty good baseline setting for the new "election shifter" tool, based on the available polling (regressing the shifts among Black voters a tad).

Dem Shift%/Turnout Shift%:

White: 2.5/0
Black: -6.0/-10.0
Asian: -6.0/-5.0
Native: -6.0/-5.0
Pacific: -6.0/-5.0
Multiracial: -6.0/-5.0
Other: -6.0/-5.0

No High School: -7.0/-5.0
High School: -7.0/-5.0
Bachelors: 10.0/0
Graduate: 10.0/0

The result is an election that's probably Biden +1.5 or so nationally and Biden +.25 in the tipping point of WI. WI, PA, MI are all about on the knife's edge for Biden, Sunbelt swing states go for Trump.

Here's a county sample:

Milwaukee: Biden +40 -> Biden +37
Dane: Biden +53 -> Biden +59
Waukesha: Trump +21 -> Trump +16
Ozaukee: Trump +12 -> Trump +5
Washington: Trump +38 -> Trump +37
Kenosha: Trump +3 -> Trump +5

I was also playing around with a scenario closer to the Trump +2 super racedep polls and the results are startlingly bad in the Sunbelt for Biden. Not so bad in the Midwestern swing states but blowouts in GA, TX, AZ, NV, NC, FL.

[Virginiá]

Hi,

I'm Colin I run Redistricter, I came across this page on Google and thought I should pop in.

Let me know if you have any questions or recommendations for Redistricter and I'll get back to you, although you should probably contact me via email or Twitter for a faster response.

Thanks!

Really impressed by your project. I'm no stranger to sprawling programming hobby projects like this, especially the investment of time and patience. Hope you are able to get a good ROI with subscriptions.