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This article was originally published JUNE 24, 2019 in Civicist. It is republished here for the purposes of translation under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Full text available: https://civichall.org/civicist/beyond-flatland-machine-learning-end-two-party-binary/

BEYOND FLATLAND: MACHINE LEARNING AND THE END OF THE TWO-PARTY BINARY

COLIN MEGILL

In democracies worldwide, billions of citizens hold an untold number of interests, opinions and positions. Political reality on the ground is vastly more complex than our political symbols and categories allow us to express. Our political choices are artificially constrained b

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THINGS WE SAY WE DO:

The practice & process of visual communication

• find something interesting in everything
• learn
• research
• find insights
• develop insights
• use human intuition
• analyze

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/*

beetles dataset
& random in setstate for playing with animations

import {scatterplotGenerator} from "../data/generators";

*/

import React from "react";

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/*

beetles dataset
& random in setstate for playing with animations

import {scatterplotGenerator} from "../data/generators";

*/

import React from "react";

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/*

beetles dataset
& random in setstate for playing with animations

import {scatterplotGenerator} from "../data/generators";

*/

import React from "react";