Patrick Ball of the California-based Human Rights Data Analysis Group said he had calculated the mortality rate of political prisoners from 1985 to 1988 using reports completed by Habre’s feared secret police.
In this week’s “Top Picks,” IRIN interviews HRDAG executive director Patrick Ball about giant data sets and whether we can trust them. “No matter how big it is, data on violence is always partial,” he says.
Coverage of Megan Price at the Women in Data Science Conference held at Stanford University. “Price discussed her organization’s behind-the-scenes work to collect and analyze data on the ground for human rights advocacy organizations. HRDAG partners with a wide variety of human rights organizations, including local grassroots non-governmental groups and—most notably—multiple branches of the United Nations.”
Principled Data Processing is a way to prove to someone, usually yourself, that what you did was right.
I will use the skills and culture I learned from HRDAG’s team to understand how the conflict has affected the people in my country.
Maria Gargiulo has joined HRDAG as a Statistician.
In 2024, HRDAG maximized AI's strengths to support partners.
We’ve
built a model for estimating the true number of positives, using what we have determined to be the most reliable datasets—deaths.
Identifiers being sequential could make possible estimations of the population of detained children.
Congratulations to Patrick on this well deserved award!
How do police officer booking decisions affect tools relied upon by judges?
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.
Larry Barrett has joined HRDAG as a Human Rights and Data Science Intern until February, 2022.
In 2019, HRDAG aimed to count those who haven't been counted.
Using multiple system estimation, we estimate the total population of social movement leaders killed in Colombia during 2018.
Valentina Rozo Ángel has joined our team as our new visiting analyst this fall.
We're thinking about how rigorous analysis can fortify debates about components of our criminal justice system such as cash bail, pretrial risk assessment and fairness in general.
Margot is a professor in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford University, interested in computer simulation and mathematical analysis of engineering processes.