Kleinman Forum, Fisher Fine Arts Library, 4th Floor
Event Recap
In 2016, 200 million people visited election aggregator and forecasting websites. Despite the proliferation of data, election forecasting remains a challenge, one that is exacerbated by gerrymandering and unrepresentative districts.
Last year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the Pennsylvania Congressional Map, citing one of the most gerrymandered maps in the country. Former Attorney General, Eric Holder, even went as far as to call Gerrymandering a threat to Democracy. In 2018, District Builder rolled out a suite of digital tools that allows you to create your own election map. Over 1,200 mappers created 2,600 maps using District Builder.
Join MUSA for an afternoon of election analytics. Chris Satullo, former WHYY News Director and current Draw the Lines Project Manager will discuss gerrymandering and the District Builder tool. To follow, Demographer Jonathan Tannen, founder of Philadelphia election analytics site Sixty-Six Wards will give an interactive tutorial on predicting elections in R.
