Margot is a professor in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University, interested in computer simulation and mathematical analysis of engineering processes.
The data science field is always changing, which means that I'll always be learning.
With so many dashboards and shiny visualizations, how can an interested non-technical reader find good science among the noise?
The datasets contributed by 30+ organizations do a wonderful job of tallying the violence that was observed—but they don’t account for the violence that nobody witnessed or documented.
2024
18 June, 2024 - A Pulitzer for an HRDAG partner
1 March, 2024 - Citations with impact
2023
21 December, 2023 - Evaluating tools to weed out discrimination
15 December, 2023 - Connecting with partners on police accountability
7 December, 2023 - HRDAG and human rights in Colombia
24 November, 2023 - HRDAG remembers Scott Weikart
16 November, 2023 - How HRDAG helps to hold Chicago police accountable
2 November, 2023 - Building on personal relationships
19 October, 2023 - HRDAG’s role in transformative justice
25 September, 2023 - The fruit of long collaborations
28 June, 2023 - HRDAG publishes largest ...
Solving for X documents Patrick's team as they travel to Guatemala, Kosovo, and Liberia, helping human rights supporters apply sophisticated computer analysis to human rights events.
It was July of 2006, I’d spent five years working at a local human rights NGO in Bogotá, and I had reached retirement age. But then a whole new world opened up for me to discover. Tamy Guberek, then HRDAG Latin America coordinator, whom I had met at the NGO, approached me about becoming part of the HRDAG Colombia team as a research/administrative assistant. Over a cup of suitably Colombian coffee, the deal was quickly "signed.” My responsibilities ranged from fundraising to translations, from support in data gathering for estimates on homicides and disappearances in various regions of Colombia to editorial support to different Benetech-HRDAG ...
We aim to produce code that is clear, replicatable across machines and operating systems, and that leaves an easy-to-follow audit trail.
In 2018, HRDAG collaborated on work in Guatemala, US criminal justice, and more.
This past year at HRDAG has been about continuing efforts to uncover the truth.
HRDAG built a machine-learning tool to strip the raw data of any potentially identifying information such as names and court case numbers. There was no "acceptable error rate."
In 2020, HRDAG provided clarity on issues related to the pandemic, police misconduct, and more.
In 2019, HRDAG aimed to count those who haven't been counted.
The online version of the 2019 Year-End Review will appear in January 2020.
Les auditions d’experts se poursuivent au palais de justice de Dakar sur le procès de l’ex-président tchadien Hissène Habré. Hier, c’était au tour de Patrick Ball, seul inscrit au rôle, commis par la chambre d’accusation de N’Djamena pour dresser les statistiques sur le taux de mortalité dans les centres de détention.
In 2023, HRDAG continued to learn from our partners about resilience and patience.
Lum, Kristian, Megan Emily Price, and David Banks. 2013. The American Statistician 67, no. 4: 191-200. doi: 10.1080/00031305.2013.821093. © 2013 The American Statistician. All rights reserved. [free eprint may be available].
Anita Gohdes and Megan Price (2013). Journal of Conflict Resolution, Volume 57 Issue 6 December 2013. © 2013 Journal of Conflict Resolution. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of SAGE. [online abstract]DOI: 10.1177/0022002712459708.