INFORMS has announced the results of the first Blog Challenge and it is a great success. Fourteen bloggers had a post on the subject “OR and the Holidays” (including me!). January’s Challenge moves into current events with the topic “OR and Politics”. If you post on that subject, be sure to email graphics@mail.informs.org with the pointer.
I don’t have a blog, so for any interested bloggers, I think perusing the following websites–especially the first two–will offer promising leads for an OR and politics post:
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/redistricting-data.php
http://www.publicmapping.org/Home
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/tgrshp2010.html
http://2010.census.gov/news/releases/cb11-cn01.html