Census statistics play a key role in public policy decisions and social science research.
However, given the risk of revealing individual information, many statistical agencies are …

Congressional district lines in many US states are drawn by partisan actors, raising
concerns about gerrymandering. To separate the partisan effects of redistricting from the …

This article introduces the 50stateSimulations, a collection of simulated congressional
districting plans and underlying code developed by the Algorithm-Assisted Redistricting …

Ensuring descriptive representation of racial minorities without packing minorities too
heavily into districts is a perpetual difficulty, especially in states lacking voter file race data …

Census data is widely used by practitioners to understand demographic change, allocate
resources, address inequalities, and make sound business decisions. Until recently, projects …

The US Census Bureau plans to protect the privacy of 2020 Census respondents through its
Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS), which attempts to achieve differential privacy …

Abstract Schools in the United States remain heavily segregated by race and income.
Previous work demonstrates districts can promote group diversity within their schools with …

Redistricting practitioners must balance many competing constraints and criteria when
drawing district boundaries. To aid in this process, researchers have developed many …

Gerrymandering has become much more frequent in the United States in the past 20 years.
Researchers have developed measures, such as the efficiency gap, to help courts …

Social scientists have developed dozens of measures for assessing partisan bias in
redistricting. But these measures are not easily adapted to other groups, including groups …