This fall, Congressional leaders will begin the state redistricting process that takes place every ten years to reflect population changes captured by the U.S. Census. As the process gets underway, a team in the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program is creating a resource guide to help nonpartisan groups who want to evaluate the fairness of proposed maps, or draw their own, using a computational redistricting tool called GerryChain.
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