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How do you win an election in a political district that you have previously lost? How do you target voters and precincts to switch to your side for an upcoming election? Where do you focus your limited resources to provide the best chance of winning?

"All crimes are local."
Whether you agree with this statement or not, there are many different methods to model historical crime and to try and predict future crime. These methods range from statistical methods to system dynamics methods to geographical methods. Some of these methods look at certain geographical areas and treat them independent from other areas and others consider each geographical area connected to some or all other geographical areas.

Demographics are more than just the statistics provided by the Census Bureau. Starting with these statistics and other indicators of a geographic area, statistical and deep learning models of the demographics were constructed. The resulting models give one a picture of various census tracts or voting precincts for use in...

The idea for Investivote started at a gerrymandering hackathon held in San Francisco, California in March 2018. A group of people working on drawing "more equal" voting district boundaries were thrown together and came up with ...