Firstly, thank you super a lot to @logantpowell. Without you helping out to basically guide me to the API and how to use it and so on this project would not have been possible pretty much. Every time we chatted on @gitchat was a useful lesson. I am indebted. 

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Thanks also to
@usethespacebar &@dimpase for helping out when we tried to get pdist to work in Python in parallel and then I ended up just writing it in C and Cython.
Just having you ask questions, give hints, and try stuff out was so supportive. https://github.com/oliviaguest/pdist/tree/master …
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I learned so much during this project. From how incredibly powerful Twitter is at giving help from technical to "just" psychological help when I need to vent. Many times I ask questions on here people reply and even if I end up doing it a completely different way the fact you all
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reply is amazingly supportive. I just want wanna end [for now] by listing a few of the things I learned or increased my knowledge on many times over on this project: JavaScript, GIS, Topo/GeoJSON files, how to use JSON-APIs in Python, geopandas, pandas, Cython, parallelising code
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in Python, brushing up on me C which I hadn't used since 2014 (aka why I stopped using C), USA politics and law,
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and with trying to make the
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Oh, also
@arxiv was down (I think it's still suffering server probs) so I was expecting the preprint to be out yesterday, which was a bit upsetting — I was ready to share. I'm glad it's all sorted now but if it goes down again lemme know and I put the PDF up someplace else too.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
This is the main github repo: https://github.com/oliviaguest/redistrict … and the
@OSFramework repo:https://osf.io/5fepu/1 reply 3 retweets 7 likesShow this thread
Also see this repo: https://github.com/oliviaguest/weighted_k_means … for the variant of k-means we/@DrLoveBC developed specifically for this project.
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Even though you might think it was only a few minutes of your time your guidance motivated me to learn more. 