{"id":1541,"date":"2018-09-19T15:10:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T19:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2018-09-19T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T19:10:50","slug":"weekly-update-09192018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/2018\/09\/19\/weekly-update-09192018\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update (09\/19\/2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been researching Voronoi graph regions and their usage in recommendation system. I&#8217;m particularly interested in finding <a href=\"https:\/\/pdfs.semanticscholar.org\/2a46\/914d60a8aec00a3a86e376871d65aa0a0d15.pdf\">open-source implementation<\/a> of Voronoi graph regions usage. I&#8217;ve also been reading and researching<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/redistricting-maps\/\"> FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s gerrymandering maps<\/a> and how they created their maps of different districting schemes. I am especially interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/we-drew-2568-congressional-districts-by-hand-heres-how\/\">the algorithm<\/a> they used for one of the districting plans. Lastly, I decided on a mapping tool, <a href=\"https:\/\/leafletjs.com\/\">Leaflet<\/a>, which is an open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps. I started building the visualization tool using Leaflet and the algorithm taken from FiveThirtyEight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been researching Voronoi graph regions and their usage in recommendation system. I&#8217;m particularly interested in finding open-source implementation of Voronoi graph regions usage. I&#8217;ve also been reading and researching FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s gerrymandering maps and how they created their maps of different districting schemes. I am especially interested in the algorithm they used for one of &#8230; <a title=\"Weekly Update (09\/19\/2018)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/2018\/09\/19\/weekly-update-09192018\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Weekly Update (09\/19\/2018)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,37,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-58","category-chau-pham","category-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}