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The undesirable implications of this result are that redistricting cannot be fully automated in practice and the choice of constraints and manual selection of the winning, "optimal" plan from a group of auto-generated plans, reintroduce value-laden and politically biased decision making back into the
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Altman and his colleagues later created the DistrictBuilder software (a successor to the BARD package), the first open-source system to enable the public to participate in redistricting directly through the creation of legal redistricting plans. This effort was awarded the Brown Democracy medal and
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Over the last decade, Altman has been a leader in the Harvard University Privacy Tools project, which conducts research and develops tools to improve data privacy. Altman has published several research articles with this group characterizing the mathematical underpinnings on information privacy
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Altman's research in data curation and replication began in a collaboration with the Harvard libraries and Harvard-MIT Data Center (which is now a part of the Institute of Quantitative Social Science). This work included development of an open source institutional repository for data, named the
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of statistical analyses used in social science are threatened by errors and limitations in the statistical computations and software used to estimate them. Based on this analysis, Altman, McDonald and Gill developed methods to detect issues in social science statistical models and provide more
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Further, computational simulations that he performed showed also that even the constraints that have been traditionally considered politically non-preferential, such as the overall compactness of the district, are not necessarily non-preferential because compactness requirements have different
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From 1998 to 2012 Altman held a number of research positions at Harvard University, including senior research scientist at the Institute of Quantitative Social Science, archival director for the Murray Research Archive and associate director of the
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methods to verify data for scientific reuse, and long-term archiving; the analysis of technical and institutional approach to long-term preservation; the creation of taxonomic standards for author attribution (working with
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Pizzigati award (see awards and recognition), after being used by the public to create thousands of legal districting plans—which increased previous levels of public participation in redistricting.
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Altman's research was focused on preservation, scientific replication, and scholarly communication. It included the development of standards for data citation; the creation of semantic
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Altman, M.; Bourg, C.; Cohen, P.; Choudhury, GS; Henry, C.; Kriegsman, S.; Minow, M.; Selematsela, D.; Sengupta, A.; Suber, P.; Turnator, E. (2018-12-17).
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Altman, M.; Bourg, C.; Cohen, P.; Choudhury, GS; Henry, C.; Kriegsman, S.; Minow, M.; Selematsela, D.; Sengupta, A.; Suber, P.; Turnator, E. (2018-12-17).
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redistricting process (something that the use of "objective" computer programs was hoped to avoid), while potentially also legitimizing such undercover
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Altman, M.; Bailey, J.; Cariani, K.; Corridan, J.; Crabtree, J.; Gallinger, M.; Goethals, A.; Grotke, A.; Hartman, C.; Lazorshak, B. (2015).
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Altman, Micah; Andreev, Leonid; Diggory, Mark; King, Gary; Kiskis, Daniel L.; Kolster, Elizabeth; Krot, Michael; Verba, Sidney (2001).
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effects on political groups if the groups are distributed in geographically different ways. This result was referenced by the
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Recommendations for Replication and Accurate Analysis, Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist
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Micah Altman (November 1998). "Modeling the Effect of Mandatory District Compactness on Partisan Gerrymanders".
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Altman, Micah (1997). "Is Automation the Answer: The Computational Complexity of Automated Redistricting".
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Altman, Micah (1997). "Is Automation the Answer: The Computational Complexity of Automated Redistricting".
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Altman, Micah (2008). "A Fingerprint Method for Scientific Data Verification". In Sobh, Tarek (ed.).
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and other); and the characterization of grand-challenge problems in scholarly communications.
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Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction
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redistricting application designed to provide online mapping tools. This was awarded
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The Public Mapping Project: How Public Participation Can Revolutionize Redistricting
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threats, and developing new technical and legal approaches to privacy protection.
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with Jefferson Gill, and Michael P. McDonald in 2004, which demonstrated that the
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McGann; Keena, Alex; Smith, Charles Anthony; Latner, Michael (2016-11-23).
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have been both theoretical and implementational. He established that the
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Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
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Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist
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Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist
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Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age
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Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age
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The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest
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In March 2012, Altman was appointed as director of research at
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Advances in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering
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and Gary King. The successor to the Virtual data center, the
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Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach
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Scientific data curation, preservation and replication
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Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology
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Altman, Micah; Gill, Jeff; Mcdonald, Michael (2003).
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In January 2011, Altman and McDonald presented their
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Districting Principles and Democratic Representation
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Districting Principles and Democratic Representation
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Altman's contributions to electoral districting and
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Districting Principles and Democratic Representation
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(2011). 1510: 1457: 1455: 1425: 1423: 781: 741:McDonald, Michael P.; Altman, Micah (2018). 1465:Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal 1305: 1303: 1301: 774:Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal 1870:Mit Grand Challenge Participation Platform 1786: 1750:Micah Altman; et al. (January 2004). 1610: 1337: 1335: 1265: 1263: 956:Mit Grand Challenge Participation Platform 527: 405:, and a non-resident senior fellow at the 390:(2013) and the Brown Democracy Medal from 311:, graduating in 1989. He then went to the 29: 2231:California Institute of Technology alumni 2036: 2006: 1943: 1877: 1813: 1743: 1666: 1601: 1592: 1566: 1504: 1452: 1420: 1251: 1227: 1225: 1223: 963: 867: 1918:"Publishing: Credit where credit is due" 1859: 1857: 1298: 1199:"Organized Section 8: Leon Weaver Award" 842:"Publishing: Credit where credit is due" 764: 612:Data Innovation Award for Social Impact 1974: 1540: 1370: 1368: 1332: 1260: 1231: 1097: 1095: 1093: 1061: 604:American Political Science Association 426:Electoral districting and redistricting 401:and Head Scientist for the Program for 291:Altman was born on August 31, 1967, in 2183: 1819: 1575:"BARD: Better Automated Redistricting" 1461: 1435:American Political Science Association 1220: 1203:American Political Science Association 1193: 1191: 1037:. Vol. 1. IGI Global. p. 2. 1030: 770: 678: 574:Western Political Science Association 559:American Political Science Association 518: 415:American Political Science Association 374:, which developed DistrictBuilder, an 349:American Political Science Association 239:(born August 31, 1967) is an American 2088: 1854: 1341: 1101: 902:National Digital Stewardship Alliance 279:, which develops DistrictBuilder, an 1672: 1365: 1269: 1090: 998: 1611:Kurtzleben, Danielle (2011-03-09). 1344:"Micah Altman wins Pizzigati Prize" 1188: 503:replicable and reliable estimates. 458:for the less knowledgeable public. 13: 2241:Redistricting in the United States 1643:"The rigged redistricting process" 1519:California Institute of Technology 1403: 1133:"Micah Altman: Harvard University" 1070:University of North Carolina Press 689:California Institute of Technology 313:California Institute of Technology 105:California Institute of Technology 14: 2262: 2151: 1311:"Best policy innovations of 2011" 483:Virtual Data Center, co-led with 420: 2176:Micah Altman profile at WorldCat 2117: 2057: 2030: 2000: 1968: 1905: 1872:. 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