Hello!

This repository contains the work of Team Freshmen for NYU's Love Data Week Datathon. We chose Track 2, "Helping the NYU Community," and used L2 Political's historical voter files to accomplish two main challenges.

First, we tried to generate "surrogates" of the data by to increase the anonymity of voters by hashing location data and other sensitive information that retains the shape of the original data but also creates anonymity for voters. These methods can be seen in the file "AnonymizeL2Data.py".

Second, we created some interesting data visualizations with L2 Political data. We originally wanted to map gerrymandering trends but were largely unable to due to time and feasibility. For the swing states Florida, Michigan, and Wisconsin, we mapped whether or not voters voted in those states in the 2008 and 2012 elections in the folder Visualization Notebooks. We extracted data into CSV's with L2_Political. The resulting visualizations are in the folder Visualization Results. We hope these visualizations (where green dots mean the individual voted, and purple dots mean they didn't) help show trends across elections and make the data easier to use!

Some of our files were too big to upload to github, these can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NhUxJUyE0zQQwA8h-O0lmbDAj6AmwhKO?usp=sharing