For more information, see: Guest, O., Kanayet, F. J., & Love, B. C. (2019). Gerrymandering and Computational Redistricting. Journal of Computational Social Science.
If you are interested in looking at the maps check out the website: http://redistrict.science.
run.py is the main script to run.
It downloads (if required) and processes relevant data for a state.
Afterwards it runs the clustering on the state.
And finally, it graphs the state as it is and the results of the clustering.
For more information type:
python run.py --helpFor a simple and easy state to run (not super taxing on RAM, etc.), you may try Rhode Island. Type the following and hit return:
python run.py RI
The run.py will now print information to do with the files it will create and the settings it is being run with.
Thanks to Logan T. Powell (@logantpowell) who works at the United States Census Bureau for all his patience, help, and support. Also thanks to David Ellis (@Ducksual) and Michael Sumner (@mdsumner) for showing me useful documentation for GIS — and thanks to Grant R. Vousden-Dishington (@usethespacebar) and Dmitrii V. Pasechnik (@dimpase) for pointing me to Cython.