The Hidden Complexity Behind Americas Map Problem Statecraft

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AKA: My First Video with Maps In It! • Become a Producer on Patreon or join the FREE tier today: / thearmanmadani • Synopsis: Researchers and mathematicians across the country have been working to solve partisan gerrymandering for decades. But this map problem is highly complex - just think about how many maps configurations you can make with even a simple 5 x 5 grid. We're diving (way too) deep into the algorithms, metrics, and standards that make this problem so hard to crack. • -- • Buy a book from my stack, support the channel (affiliate links): • The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt: https://amzn.to/4bCozMn • Happy City by Charles Montgomery: https://amzn.to/491PShz • The Anatomy of the Swipe by Ahmed Siddiqui: https://amzn.to/49qYcam • Manias, Panics, and Crashes by Robert Z. Aliber, Charles P. Kindleberger: https://amzn.to/49x5hGi • Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan: https://amzn.to/42yXtSo • Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka: https://amzn.to/3uxmVLy • The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro: https://amzn.to/3w9FUw1 • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte: https://amzn.to/3wfM8KY • -- • Credits / Sources: • Music by Vincent Rubinetti • Download the music on Bandcamp: • https://vincerubinetti.bandcamp.com/a... • Stream the music on Spotify: • https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3zN... • ALARM Redist R Package: https://github.com/alarm-redist/redist • ALARM 50-State Simulations: https://alarm-redist.org/fifty-states/ • MGGG Redistricting Lab Metagraph: https://mggg.org/metagraph/ • Quanta Magazine. How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering , 2023: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ma... • Sequential Monte Carlo research paper (Kosuke Imai, Cory McCartan): https://imai.fas.harvard.edu/research... • -- • What is Statecraft? • Statecraft is a series about America. I publish data stories, deep dives, and insights about American policy, tech, media, and culture. My goal is to keep Statecraft an independent publication that prioritizes analytical rigor, transparency, and non-partisanship. • Like the video content? Get the Statecraft newsletter directly to your inbox for free: https://statecraft.beehiiv.com/subscribe • -- • Chapters: • 0:00 Alabama • 1:37 Combinatorial Explosions • 4:07 Encoding Reality • 5:02 The Algorithms ( Check Out My Maps ) • 9:07 Metrics and (Lack of) Standards • 10:36 Building Blocks of Democracy • 11:57 Credits Post-Credit Meme • -- • #gerrymandering #map #history #constitution #policy #analysis #politics #usa #news #data #datavisualization #statecraft

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