#  Lewis on "The Compactness of Congressional Districts" 

 





April 18, 2011

 

 

We hope that you can join us for the penultimate [Applied StatisticsWorkshop](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/1208) of the year this Wednesday, April 20th. This week we areextremely excited to have [Jeffrey Lewis](http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/lewis/), Associate Professor ofPolitical Science at UCLA, presenting on the compactness ofcongressional districts, a topic that involves some interestingeconometric issues as well as a large GiS component. Note that this isa change from what is on the schedule. As usual, we will start theworkshop at 12 noon with a light lunch and begin the talk at 12:15. Wewrap up the workshop at 1:30pm.

“A study of Congressional district compactness, 1789-2011”   
Jeffrey B. Lewis   
Department of Political Science, UCLA   
CGIS K354 (1737 Cambridge St)   
Wednesday, April 20th, 12 noon.

Posted by [Matt Blackwell](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/sss/archives/author/matt-blackwell/) at April 18, 2011 9:36 AM



 

 

 



 

 

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