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Fabio 1beeaab2db Graph: national county↔district↔legislator authority layer
The first edges in the repo. Every US county now links to the districts it
sits in, weighted by area overlap, and every legislator links to the district
they represent — county → district → representative, traversable.

Data (PostGIS, no Atlas dependency — computed directly from geometry):
- data/county_district_edges.jsonl — 16,328 weighted edges. area_weight =
  ST_Area(ST_Intersection(county, district))/ST_Area(county) over ST_MakeValid
  Census TIGER 2024 geometries, overlaps <0.5% dropped. Uses area-intersection,
  NOT centroid-in-polygon, so urban districts that carve through counties
  (e.g. GA CD-5 / Atlanta across Clayton+DeKalb+Fulton) are captured, not
  silently dropped. Per-county weights sum to ~1.0 per district type.

build.py:
- ~6,896 new district nodes: 435 CD (ACS demographics where available; sparse
  for the 8 states missing from acs_cd) + 4,927 state-house + 1,897 state-senate
  (geometry-only). GEOID/number-keyed, stable.
- county index.md gains a `districts:` block (frontmatter) + a ## Districts
  section (body links, so link-integrity checks them).
- legislators + US House members gain `represents:` pointing at their district
  node; edge stored once on the person, inverse left to the view.
- schemas/jurisdiction: classification enum + chamber/districts fields.

Honest gaps (logged, not hidden): ID + NH have no state-house geometry, so
their house districts get nodes (represents resolves) but no county edges;
CD nodes for acs_cd-missing states are demographically sparse.

Deterministic (byte-identical rebuild); validate.py passes 26,617 records,
link-integrity clean (every district/represents link resolves).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-04 22:28:08 -04:00

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type, title, classification, state, district, demographics, sources, confidence, tags, timestamp
type title classification state district demographics sources confidence tags timestamp
Jurisdiction MA-08 congressional-district MA MA-08
population population_under_18 population_18_64 population_65_plus median_household_income poverty_rate homeownership_rate unemployment_rate median_home_value gini_index vacancy_rate race_white race_black race_asian hispanic bachelors_plus
784982 158234 295230 331518 118563 8.08 60.76 3.88 664600 0.4778 4.95 512563 77162 81048 61166 318455
field source
demographics Census ACS 2023
official
jurisdiction
congressional-district
ma
2026-07-03

MA-08

Congressional district MA-08.

Demographics (ACS 2023)

Measure Value
Population 784982
Under 18 158234
1864 295230
65+ 331518
Median household income 118563
Poverty rate 8.08
Homeownership rate 60.76
Unemployment rate 3.88
Median home value 664600
Gini index 0.4778
Vacancy rate 4.95
White 512563
Black 77162
Asian 81048
Hispanic/Latino 61166
Bachelor's or higher 318455

Source

  • demographics: Census ACS 2023