muon2
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« on: April 03, 2010, 09:34:03 PM » |
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Any competition needs rules, not just a judge. I don't know what SSP has set up, but the Ohio Redistricting Competition last year was fairly detailed. There needs to be a common data set to use for the districts so that maps can be compared.
Even more important is a scoring mechanism that the competitors can use to tune their entries. The scoring is important because it reflects the goals of the map makers. Measures like compactness and partisan balance can work against each other so that the weights as well as the criteria matter.
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