Potential extensions to the program

Demographic data

• Sensitivity analysis - perturb data to see robust the districts are to changes
• VRA compliance

Chain functionality

• Pass in different objective functions/compactness metrics
• Different ways of iterating through the state space
• Allow additional and select-able restrictions on what makes a viable district

Preprocessing

• Tools to help create one-to-one correspondence between voting data and shapefile data
• Dealing with missing data (Correct it/reject it, etc.)

Parallelizing

• Stochastic gradient descent
• Run the same chain many times from different starts to confirm results