Santa Fe Institute: Study Uses Topological Data Analysis to Identify Voting Deserts
August 10, 2024
August 10, 2024
SANTA FE, New Mexico, Aug. 10 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release:
In past years, elections in the U.S. have been marked by stories of long waiting lines at the voting polls. Add other barriers, like long commutes and inadequate transportation, and voting can become inaccessible. But these voting deserts are difficult to quantify.
In a new paper in SIAM Review, SFI External Professor Mason Porter (UCLA) and his students applied topological . . .
In past years, elections in the U.S. have been marked by stories of long waiting lines at the voting polls. Add other barriers, like long commutes and inadequate transportation, and voting can become inaccessible. But these voting deserts are difficult to quantify.
In a new paper in SIAM Review, SFI External Professor Mason Porter (UCLA) and his students applied topological . . .