Richard Barnes, of Berkeley, Calif., (left) and John Casellas Connors, of Somerville, Mass., work together at the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG) hackathon at the Data Lab in the Tisch Library at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA, on Thurs., Aug. 10, 2017. Barnes is a Ph.D. student in Computational Science at University of California, Berkeley. Connors is a post-doctoral associate at Boston University at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The two were working on a programming library for computing compactness measures of voting districts. The hackathon is part of the first in a series of Geometry of Redistricting workshops put on by the MGGG. Academics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) professionals, and legal professionals worked together to build tools useful in analyzing voting district data around the country.
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