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In this video, Moon Duchin from Cornell University explores the fascinating world of social choice theory, focusing on how different voting rules — algorithms for turning multiple preferences into a single decision — can produce very different outcomes. Duchin specifically examines the case of electing representatives, a process soon to take place in the United States. By analyzing the goals and norms of representation and introducing new tools to model and describe the data, she offers a fresh perspective on electoral reform as a design challenge for modern democracy.
This talk took place on Friday, October 22 at the 2024 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science.
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In this video, Moon Duchin from Cornell University explores the fascinating world of social choice theory, focusing on how different voting rules — algorithms for turning multiple preferences into a single decision — can produce very different outcomes. Duchin specifically examines the case of electing representatives, a process soon to take place in the United States. By analyzing the goals and norms of representation and introducing new tools to model and describe the data, she offers a fresh perspective on electoral reform as a design challenge for modern democracy.
This talk took place on Friday, October 22 at the 2024 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science.
Learn more about SIAM siam.org
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Attend a SIAM Conference siam.org/conferences-events
#cornelluniversity #datascience #dataanalytics #socialscience #elections #machinelearning #mathematics #mathematicseducation
