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Optimal Legislative County Clustering in North Carolina
North Carolina's constitution requires that state legislative districts should not split counties. However, counties must be split to comply with the "one person, one vote"... -
Ten quick tips for using a Raspberry Pi
Much of biology (and, indeed, all of science) is becoming increasingly computational. We tend to think of this in regards to algorithmic approaches and software tools, as well... -
The Essential Role of Empirical Validation in Legislative Redistricting Simul...
As granular data about elections and voters become available, redistricting simulation methods are playing an increasingly important role when legislatures adopt redistricting... -
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Articles whose authors make them Open Access (OA) by self-archiving them online are cited significantly more than articles accessible only to subscribers. Some have suggested... -
Rethinking resource allocation in science
US funding agencies alone distribute a yearly total of roughly $65B dollars largely through the process of proposal peer review: scientists compete for project funding by... -
Global multi-layer network of human mobility
Recent availability of geo-localized data capturing individual human activity together with the statistical data on international migration opened up unprecedented opportunities... -
An iterative approach for generating statistically realistic populations of h...
Background: Many different simulation frameworks, in different topics, need to treat realistic datasets to initialize and calibrate the system. A precise reproduction of initial... -
How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and scie...
Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorded. Yet, finding statistical instruments... -
Health Figures: An Open Source JavaScript Library for Health Data Visualization
The way we look at data has a great impact on how we can understand it, particularly when the data is related to health and wellness. Due to the increased use of self-tracking... -
Research Software Development & Management in Universities: Case Studies ...
Modern research in the sciences, engineering, humanities, and other fields depends on software, and specifically, research software. Much of this research software is developed... -
Ten simple rules to create a serious game, illustrated with examples from str...
International audience; Serious scientific games are games whose purpose is not just fun. In the field of science, the serious goals include crucial activities for scientists:... -
User documentation and training at Belle II
Belle II is a rapidly growing collaboration with members from 113 institutes spread around the globe. The software development team of the experiment, as well as the... -
Model-Driven Design of Clinical Guidance Systems
Clinical guidance systems have been widely adopted to help medical staffs to avoid preventable medical errors such as delay in diagnosis, treatment or untended deviations from... -
Are opinions based on science: modelling social response to scientific facts.
As scientists we like to think that modern societies and their members base their views, opinions and behaviour on scientific facts. This is not necessarily the case, even... -
Enhancing Big Data in the Social Sciences with Crowdsourcing: Data Augmentati...
The importance of big data is a contested topic among social scientists. Proponents claim it will fuel a research revolution, but skeptics challenge it as unreliably measured... -
A Computational Approach to Measuring Vote Elasticity and Competitiveness
The recent wave of attention to partisan gerrymandering has come with a push to refine or replace the laws that govern political redistricting around the country. A common... -
Citizen Social Lab: A digital platform for human behaviour experimentation wi...
Cooperation is one of the behavioral traits that define human beings, however we are still trying to understand why humans cooperate. Behavioral experiments have been largely... -
Mathematics of Nested Districts: The Case of Alaska
In eight states, a "nesting rule" requires that each state Senate district be exactly composed of two adjacent state House districts. In this paper we investigate the potential... -
Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data
This article offers a short guide to the steps scientists can take to ensure that their data and associated analyses continue to be of value and to be recognized. In just the... -
A Guide to Teaching Data Science
Demand for data science education is surging and traditional courses offered by statistics departments are not meeting the needs of those seeking training. This has led to a...
