Our Mission

The MGGG Redistricting Lab is a research group at Tisch College of Tufts University, led by PI Moon Duchin, that grew out of an informal research collective called the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group. Our staff has expertise and interests spanning mathematics (geometry, topology, discrete math, dynamics), algorithms, software development, geography, STS, law, and policy. We research data science interventions for civil rights.

Our goals are these:

• to pursue cutting-edge research in the basic science and practically relevant applications of geometry, topology, and computing to the redistricting problem;
• to build open-source tools and resources that create public access and analytical power for better understanding election systems and their consequences;
• to partner with civil rights organizations to reexamine and strengthen the quantitative toolkit for protecting voting rights;
• to offer formal and informal expert consulting to stakeholders on all sides.

Highlights

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  Major updates to Gerry-Suite

  MGGG

  28 May 2024

  Since the beginning of the year, we’ve made several major updates to our main suite of redistricting analysis tools.

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  A newer, smarter geography package

  MGGG

  27 May 2024

  We are excited to announce a major update of the Python package MAUP, our geospatial tookit for redistricting data. The name of this package comes from the “modifiable areal unit problem” in geography: the same spatial data will look different depending on how you divide up a space into units.

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  Introducing VoteKit

  MGGG

  14 December 2023

  We are proud to announce the release of a new Python package called VoteKit, nicknamed “a Swiss army knife for social choice research.”

The MGGG Redistricting Lab is a nonpartisan research organization located within the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University.