- Submit Your Algorithm for a Chance to Win Prizes Totaling $700,000+ - Jun 17, 2021.
Can your algorithm make fair and accurate #recidivism forecasts? Take part in US National Institute of Justice “Recidivism Forecasting Challenge” with prize money totaling over $700K.
Challenge, Crime, Forecasting
- Six Ethical Quandaries of Predictive Policing - Nov 6, 2020.
When predictive machine learning models are applied to real-life scenarios, especially those that directly impact humans, such as cancer detection and other medical-related applications, the risks involved with incorrect predictions carry very high stakes. These risks are also prominent in how machine learning is applied in law enforcement, and serious ethical questions must be considered.
Bias, Crime, Ethics, Police, Predictive Analytics
- Overcoming the Racial Bias in AI - Oct 30, 2020.
The results of any AI developed today is entirely dependent on the data on which it trains. If the data is distributed--intentionally or not--with a bias toward any category of data over another, then the AI will display that bias. What is a better way forward to handle this possibility toward bias when the datasets involve human beings?
AI, Bias, Crime, Ethics
- Book Chapter: The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data - Sep 3, 2020.
Get a free book chapter from "The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data" by a leading researcher Sir David John Spiegelhalter. This excerpt takes a forensic look at data surrounding the victims of the UK most prolific serial killer and shows how a simple search for patterns reveals critical details.
Book, Crime, JMP, Statistics
- Prepare for a Long Battle against Deepfakes - Feb 21, 2020.
While deepfakes threaten to destroy our perception of reality, the tech giants are throwing down the gauntlet and working to enhance the state of the art in combating doctored videos and images.
AI, Crime, Deepfakes, Facebook, Google, Politics, Trends, Twitter
- Introduction to Geographical Time Series Prediction with Crime Data in R, SQL, and Tableau - Feb 14, 2020.
When reviewing geographical data, it can be difficult to prepare the data for an analysis. This article helps by covering importing data into a SQL Server database; cleansing and grouping data into a map grid; adding time data points to the set of grid data and filling in the gaps where no crimes occurred; importing the data into R; running XGBoost model to determine where crimes will occur on a specific day
Crime, Geospatial, R, SQL, Tableau, Time Series
- How to Define a Machine Learning Problem Like a Detective - Oct 22, 2018.
The common refrain among machine learning practitioners is that it’s as much an art as a science. True enough, but in this discipline, you can only appreciate the former if you understand the latter.
Crime, Data journalism, Machine Learning
- What If the Data Tells You to Be Racist? When Algorithms Explicitly Penalize - Sep 26, 2018.
Without the right precautions, machine learning — the technology that drives risk-assessment in law enforcement, as well as hiring and loan decisions — explicitly penalizes underprivileged groups.
Algorithms, Bias, Crime, Predictive Analytics
- Justice Can’t Be Colorblind: How to Fight Bias with Predictive Policing - Feb 28, 2018.
Predictive policing uncovers racial inequity, which it threatens to perpetuate - but, if we turn things around, it also presents an unprecedented opportunity to advance social justice.
Bias, Crime, Police, Predictive Analytics
- Why understanding of truth is important in Data Science? - Jan 1, 2018.
Data Science can be used to discover correlations (What phenomena occurred) but cannot be used to establish causality (Why the phenomena occurred).
Bias, Correlation, Crime, Data Science, Michael Brodie, ProPublica
70 Amazing Free Data Sources You Should Know - Dec 20, 2017.
70 free data sources for 2017 on government, crime, health, financial and economic data, marketing and social media, journalism and media, real estate, company directory and review, and more to start working on your data projects.
Big Data, Business, Crime, Datasets, Finance, Government, Health, Journalism, Octoparse, Social Media
- Top 3 Breakthroughs in Combating Financial Crime - Aug 3, 2017.
AI and Analytics driven solutions have been widely adopted across different industries for various purposes. However, only a handful of banks around the world are working with advanced analytics and artificial intelligence technologies to improve their risk and compliance activities.
AI, Crime, Finance
- When Data Science Is Not Enough: Deriving Signal from Maritime Observations - Jul 28, 2017.
We examine the limits of "data science-first" thinking - letting technical skills drive the analysis, and only later adding domain understanding.
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Crime, Data Science, Fishing, Ocean, United Nations
- How I Detect Fake News, by Tim O’Reilly - Dec 26, 2016.
Read how Tim O'Reilly traced the falsity of one internet meme, and what that teaches us about how an algorithm might do it.
Crime, Elections, Fake News, Media, Tim O'Reilly
- arXiv Paper Spotlight: Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images - Dec 7, 2016.
This recent paper addresses the use of still facial images in an attempt to differentiate criminals from non-criminals, doing so with the help of 4 different classifiers. Results are as troubling as they are unsettling.
Academics, arXiv, Classification, Crime, Face Recognition, Image Recognition, Machine Learning
- Data Science Hackathon, Metis / Invisible Institute, Nov 19, San Francisco - Nov 14, 2016.
Join hackathon to explore data science models and D3 visualizations to help the efforts of the Citizens Police Data Project.
CA, Crime, D3.js, Data Visualization, Hackathon, Metis, Police, San Francisco
- Data Science + Criminal Justice - Oct 17, 2016.
The nation needs brilliant, creative minds to lead the next generation of crime forecasting. Enter the competition sponsored by National Institute of Justice to help improve policing and public safety with data science. $1.2 Million will be awarded.
Competition, Crime, Data Science, Forecasting, Police, Safety
- NIJ Crime Forecasting Challenge – help improve policing and public safety with data science! - Sep 22, 2016.
The nation needs brilliant, creative minds to lead the next generation of crime forecasting. Enter the competition sponsored by National Institute of Justice to help improve policing and public safety with data science. $1.2 Million will be awarded.
Challenge, Competition, Crime, Forecasting, Police, Safety
- Random Forest®: A Criminal Tutorial - Sep 19, 2016.
Get an overview of Random Forest here, one of the most used algorithms by KDnuggets readers according to a recent poll.
Algobeans, CA, Crime, random forests algorithm, San Francisco
- Data Science vs Crime: Detecting Pickpocket Suspects from Transit Records - Sep 1, 2016.
A team of US and Chinese researchers has creatively used massive data collected by automated fare collectors for identifying thieves in the public transit systems. The system was tested in Beijing and was able to identify 93% of known pickpockets.
Anomaly Detection, Beijing, China, Crime, Hui Xiong, Mobility, Rutgers
- Using Big Data Analytics To Prevent Crimes The “Minority Report” Way - Apr 18, 2016.
The idea of using artificial intelligence for the crime prevention has been around for more than a decade. In this post, we present four examples, including how using analytics, we can prevent a criminal from re-offending.
Big Data Analytics, Crime, Machine Learning, Surveillance
- Minority Report Visualized – Chicago Police Analyzed - Dec 28, 2015.
Who watches the watchmen? This article examines the recently available Chicago Police misconduct allegation dataset from the Invisible Institute.
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Chicago, Crime, Data Visualization, IL, Matthew Mayo, Open Data, Police, Python
- Predictive Policing – Free Book - Jul 15, 2015.
This free book is an easy to digest introduction to the world of predictive analytics and Big Data. The book is written from a policing perspective and shows interesting views in how the power of the police force can be increased by focusing on predictive policing.
Crime, Free ebook, Police
- White House sees Data as the 21st Century Catalyst for Effective Policing - May 25, 2015.
Review of the steps taken by White House over last six months to modernize police data systems to better fight crime as well as build trust between community and police.
Chief Data Officer, Crime, DJ Patil, Government, Obama, Open Data, Police, Standards, Twitter, White House
- Top KDnuggets tweets, Apr 21-27: Great discussion: Building Big Data systems in academia, industry; Deep Learning in a Nutshell - Apr 28, 2015.
Great discussion: Building #BigData systems in academia, industry; DeepLearning in a Nutshell - what it is, how it works, why care?; Basics of #DeepLearning to Get You Started; Top LinkedIn Groups for #Analytics, #BigData.
Big Data, Crime, Deep Learning, San Francisco, Text Analysis
- Deep Learning to Fight Crime - Apr 22, 2015.
We look at how using Deep Learning, Spark, and H2O Machine Learning platform can be used to analyze and predict crime in San Francisco and Chicago.
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Apache Spark, CA, Chicago, Crime, Deep Learning, H2O, IL, San Francisco
- Top KDnuggets tweets, Sep 22-23: Machine Learning for (Smart) Dummies: 7 week course - Sep 24, 2014.
Machine Learning for (Smart) Dummies: 7 week course; Ex-Googler shares his #BigData secrets, creates Quest; Predicting crime with #BigData - "Minority Report" for real; Test Your Level of Expertise with SAS, R, and Python.
Crime, Google, Machine Learning, Python, R, SAS
