Projects
Here are some projects I’ve worked on with some amazing friends and colleagues.
Diffix Bug Bounty Data Reconstruction Attack
We successfully ran a linear programming reconstuction attack on a commercial data anonymization product called Diffix, successfully reconstructing (synthetic) personally-identifying information such as sex and social security numbers from a purportedly secure database. More details are described in a pair of blog posts on differentialprivacy.org.
districts.lol
A silly "hot-or-not" web app for U.S. Congressional districts (as used in the 2018 elections).
Go to districts.lol
enumerator
Some Julia code to enumerate the connected partitions of grid graphs, used as examples in several computational geometry and redistricting projects. See the repository for more details.
View Project (GitHub)
District-Shortening Flow
A minimally technical case study of "multiscale compactness" using curve-shortening flow. We present the concepts intuitively and use
figures, animations, and interactives to argue for a more nuanced approach to political geometry than the dominant methods currently
allow.
View Project (mggg.org)
GerryChain
An open-source, user-friendly implementation of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for the analysis of electoral redistricting.
Developed at the 2018
Voting Rights Data Institute.
View Project (GitHub)
Redistricting the Grid
A construction and analysis of drawing legislative districts on toy examples of grid graphs. Includes interactive elements to explore the effect of different districting plans and distributions of voters on two-party electoral outcomes.
View Project (mggg.org)
Gaia's Awakening
A short game made in the three week Game Design course (CS369) at Colby College. Features original art, voice acting, and story.
View Project (GitHub)