shortchain,

It’s nonsense. Republicans assure us that the new voter ID laws won’t disenfranchise anyone, except lazy and shiftless people who don’t deserve the vote anyway.

In keeping with the subject, yet touching on the issue of Voter ID, here is a new study that shows just what the actual effect of the Pennsylvania law will be.

It seems also to be an example of good scientific visualization methods.

So you can prob­a­bly call Wyoming and Rhode Island the two most over­rep­re­sented states in Congress.

Yes.

Not sure how smaller coun­tries are rep­re­sented in the Euro­pean Union.

I’d expect such statements to lead to a degree of intellectual curiosity. And, if so, that it would lead you here to satisfy such a curiosity.

I am shocked you didn’t already have soft­ware like that

I wish I did. I’m looking at ParaView at shortchain’s suggestion. I’ll see how readily it will do what we need.

Pretty much. At lower res­o­lu­tions, things get really blocky, while at higher res­o­lu­tions they get much smoother.

So you can probably call Wyoming and Rhode Island the two most overrepresented states in Congress.

Not sure how smaller countries are represented in the European Union. Malta and Luxemborg are pretty tiny compared to Germany.

shortchain, excellent suggestion.

Michael, I am shocked you didn’t already have software like that

Michael,
I’d suggest a search using “open source scientific visualization software”.  Specifically, there’s a package named “paraview” which looks like it would produce pretty pictures.  I expect there’s a learning curve to get over.

It’s something I’ve brushed up against in my professional life, but only peripherally.

So I guess its because of the smaller states and cuz EV’s are hard to chop at small lev­els? Basi­cally Mon­tana gets screwed cuz it has a few less peo­ple than Rhode Island and Hawaii.…but 1 less House seat?

Pretty much. At lower resolutions, things get really blocky, while at higher resolutions they get much smoother. This is why the states with at least 14 Representatives are all within the 0.98 to 1.02 range, while those with 1 to 3 are concentrated at the fringes.

Your assump­tion is incor­rect. Run­ning the same basic analy­sis with
the new appor­tion­ment still has a huge gap between Wyoming and
Mon­tana, for example.

So I guess its because of the smaller states and cuz EV’s are hard to chop at small levels? Basically Montana gets screwed cuz it has a few less people than Rhode Island and Hawaii.…but 1 less House seat?

It would be inter­est­ing to see a map of rep­re­sen­ta­tion where the sizes of var­i­ous areas depict their pop­u­la­tion instead of geo­graphic extent

Yes it would. Do any of our readers know what sort of software will produce that kind of map? I’d be happy to go to the trouble to collect the data needed to generate it.