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Luke McKinstry

Getting Started with AWS Batch on Fargate using Terraform

I recently wanted to create a pipeline to ingest large quantities of data into the database for a web application at regular (weekly or…

4 min readJun 23, 2023

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Getting Started with AWS Batch on Fargate using Terraform

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Luke McKinstry
in
DistrictBuilder

How the Census counts people living in group quarters and what it means for redistricting

People living in university housing, correctional facilities, and others are counted differently in the U.S. Census. For redistricting…

4 min readFeb 21, 2022

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How the Census counts people living in group quarters and what it means for redistricting

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Luke McKinstry
in
DistrictBuilder

Block Equivalency to Shapefile Conversion

In this blog we cover steps for converting a redistricting plan from a block equivalency file to a GIS shapefile.

5 min readOct 4, 2021

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Block Equivalency to Shapefile Conversion

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Luke McKinstry
in
DistrictBuilder

Oregon is the First State to Adopt a 2020 Congressional Redistricting Plan, Here is how to View &…

Steps to Upload and Evaluate Oregon’s 2020 Congressional redistricting plan in DistrictBuilder.

4 min readSep 29, 2021

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Oregon is the First State to Adopt a 2020 Congressional Redistricting Plan, Here is how to View &…

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Luke McKinstry
in
Cicero

Tracking International Politics by Linking Parties

In this post, we take a look at the history of several of the national parliaments outside the United States we maintain.

4 min readMay 18, 2021

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Canada parliament seat share

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Luke McKinstry
in
Cicero

Do One-Term Politicians Exist?

Is there such a thing as a one-term politician? Cicero looks at officials who serve one term in an elected office and then exit politics.

4 min readMar 4, 2021

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Do One-Term Politicians Exist?

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Luke McKinstry
in
Cicero

How to Use Open Civic Data Identifiers to Organize Political Data

Learn how and why to use Open Civic Data Identifiers, a universal data standard for defining representative government.

4 min readSep 16, 2020

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Samples of Open Civic Data Identifiers in the New York City region

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Luke McKinstry
in
Cicero

When do Local Elections Align with State + National Elections?

We visualized the schedule alignment of hundreds of local and state/provincial elections

5 min readJun 11, 2020

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When do Local Elections Align with State + National Elections?

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Luke McKinstry
in
Cicero

Delays in Electing New Officials during the COVID-19 Crisis

A global pandemic has seriously altered voting procedures and elections calendars around the world for the foreseeable future.

5 min readApr 13, 2020

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Delays in Electing New Officials during the COVID-19 Crisis

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Luke McKinstry
in
Cicero

Local Redistricting is Transforming California Cities

In response to legal challenges, many California cities are moving from at-large to district representation. We mapped them.

4 min readFeb 27, 2020

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Local Redistricting is Transforming California Cities

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Luke McKinstry

Luke McKinstry

Software Engineer of multi-service cloud-native web apps; Previously wrote about the @ciceroapi and @districtbuilder for @azavea

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