rdatools

Redistricting analysis tools (RDA)

This repository (rdatools/rdatools) contains redistricting analysis code. There are two associated repositories of data:

• rdatools/vtd_data – Various precinct-level input data for the analysis tools, where precincts are generally census VTDs except in a few states which use census blockgroups.
• rdatools/vtd_ensembles – Various output data from the analysis tools, including ensembles of plans and scores for plans in ensembles.

Categories

The code here is organized by area:

• Base: Shared code
• DCCVT: Balzer's algorithm to find a maximally population compact map
• Ensemble: Ensemble generation & scoring code
• EI: Ecological inference code
• Rootmap: Root maps code
• Score: Scoring code

Installation

To get the code locally, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/rdatools/rdatools
cd rdatools

To run the scripts, install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

To use the shared code in another project, install the package:

pip install rda-toolkit

Testing

$ pytest