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Optimal Voting Strategies

August 1979

A model combining an individual voter’s personal preferences (a cardinal utility rating) with the preferences of the rest of the electorate (as measured by pre-election polls) is investigated to determine how a voter may maximize...

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Graph Convolutional Neural Networks

2018

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (Graph CNNs) are generalizations of classical CNNs to handle graph data such as molecular data, point could and social networks. Current filters in graph CNNs are built for fixed...

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Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview

January 2015

In recent years, deep artificial neural networks (including recurrent ones) have won numerous contests in pattern recognition and machine learning. This historical survey compactly summarizes relevant work...

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Decoding the Election: Algorithms, AI, and Your Vote

6 October 2019

Joan Donovan offered concrete advice for what all of us can do in the 2020 election and beyond in light of decoding the intertwining of politics, computing, advertising, and hypermedia: act as information stewards for our families and communities. It is a role that promises only to increase in importance in the days ahead.,...

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Cartographic Boundary Files - Shapefile

October 2018

The cartographic boundary files are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER geographic database. The cartographic boundary files are available in shapefile and KML format. A shapefile is a geospatial data format for use in geographic information system (GIS) software...

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2020 Precinct Shapefiles

October 2018

ESRI shapefiles of precinct maps to be used in the 2020 elections...

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The Redistricting Database for the State of California

October 2018

Welcome to the Statewide Database, California's redistricting database. We are responsible for collecting and processing data for California's decennial redistricting. In 2001 and 2011, these data were used for Assembly, Senate, Congressional, Board of Equalization, and local redistrictings, as mandated by...

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A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for Global Optimization over Continuous Spaces

January 1997

A new heuristic approach for minimizing possiblynonlinear and non-differentiable continuous space functions is presented. By means of an extensive testbed it is demonstrated that the new method converges faster and with more certainty...

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A Journal of Applied Reasearch in Contemporary Politics

February 2021

This journal provides a forum for professionally informed commentary on issues affecting contemporary American politics. This includes but is not limited to issues engaging parties, elections, and political participation; the news media...

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