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Séminaire Rauzy : Oratrice : Diana Davis
8 juillet 2022/11 h 00 min - 13 h 00 min
Naurons l’exposé de Diana Davis autour de son travail sur le découpage électoral. Diana sera à Marseille en personne ! Voici son titre et résumé.
Title: Analyzing districts with data and random walks
Abstract: In the United States, gerrymandering is the practice of drawing political district boundaries in a way that advantages one group (political party, racial group, candidate) over another. Many people have tried and failed to define a metric to convincingly prove that a districting plan is designed in a biased way, but a recent method using random walks is very promising. I’ll talk about work that I did with a group of 40 undergraduates did in summer 2020, to do the background data work necessary to measure gerrymandering. I’ll also talk about how to measure “fairness.” There will be lots of pictures.