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David B. Sparks
Personal blog · dsparks.wordpress.compoliticsdata
David B. Sparks's personal blog at dsparks.wordpress.com covers politics and data. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Linked for an article on using k-means clustering to partition congressional districts, cited in a thread about a new map for America. The single comment only describes and links the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I am a Political Scientist with a PhD from Duke University, a PARISS fellow, and a James B. Duke Scholar. My studies are in American Politics and Methodology, and I am more specifically interested in political parties, Congress, elections, campaigns, social network analysis, multidimensional scaling
What Hacker News says?
This is an article on using kmeans clustering to partition congressional districts ... https://dsparks.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/k-means-redistricti...
Comment linking /2010/10/18/k-means-redistricting/
on “A New Map for America”Submitted An Isarithmic History of the Two-Party Vote as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Isarithmic Maps of Public Opinion Data as a story · 1 points
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