PoliTech
University
Goals
Establish a Center for Political Informatics that would include a data repository containing, at a minimum, historical federal election results, election district boundary data, demographic data, cultural data, geographic feature data, and software able to analyze the data to test various political science hypotheses.
Issues
The Center would provide support to governmental agencies seeking to establish an analytical basis for proposed judicial and legislative options. Innovative approaches to ensuring constitutional validity of election processes would be tested against a comprehensive data set in order to enhance and ensure the fairness of political processes.
Tools and Methods
Machine Learning
RESTful Web Services
Data mining
Perceptions of political fairness
Visualization of political data
Desired Majors
Computer Science
Political Science
Public Policy
Applied Math and Statistics
Sociology