outreach / syndication

[happyjack27]

not directly related to the software, but related to the website. need to work on getting the word out. right now looking at blog/content syndication.

so far strikes me, Google+ and RSS http://www.skilledup.com/articles/blog-syndication

and there's also this: https://www.quicksprout.com/the-complete-guide-to-building-your-blog-audience-chapter-8/ but i'm not happy about "cost-per-click". just want to get the entries on google blog search, really.

[carlschroedl]

Syndication is probably important. Unfortunately, I don't know much about it. I've installed basic RSS plugins on a few wordpress instances. That was pretty much point-and-click stuff. I've done entry-level work to ensure that search engines like Google and Bing can index and crawl web pages, but nothing advanced -- pretty much just following the Google Webmaster Docs. If either of those, or a very near analog are applicable, I'd give it a shot, but I'd only be interested in leaning toward some lower-hanging fruit.

[happyjack27]

by the way, 2 blog ideas:

• how to measure partisan gerrymandering: explaining the seats votes curve (i've tried writing a little about this but i write too much.)
• something on "bayesian regret" and how it can be used as the gold standard for good rules for elections. note, bayesian regret turns out to be equivalent to the information-theoretic approach i explained. minimizing bayesian regret is the same thing as maximizing bandwidth. found a good intro on rangevoting http://rangevoting.org/BayRegDum.html (also see: http://rangevoting.org/ )

[happyjack27]

I ended up writing the bayesian regret blog: http://autoredistrict.org/news.php#gold

[happyjack27]

'nother blog idea: explaining the seats-votes curve

• it recapitulates the ranked districts, that is, it contains exactly the same information (no less, no more), but it put it in a more usable and intuitive format
• how to convert ranked districts to seats votes curve *you can average together multiple elections
• it measures partisan gerymandering
• how i score it (total displacement from symmetry)
• how the seats votes curve compares to other measures (e.g. efficiency gap is a point on it.)
• how maximizing symmetry minimizes all other scores ( such as efficiency gap), and that minimization is robust against public opinion changes.
• why i chose it as the measure (it drawfs other measures, it has nice properties such as convexity, monotoniciy, is not dependant on the vote swing being a particular way (and thus is robust against changes of vote swings)...)
• explain how it's the cumulative distribution function
• maybe show how gerrymandering makes it bulge.