I have made it my personal objective to amplify HRDAG's message of being extra careful and scientifically rigorous with human rights data.
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.
There may have been more undocumented World War II-era Korean "comfort women" than known.
Shemika Lamare has joined the HRDAG team as our new data science fellow.
In her work on statistical issues in criminal justice, Lum has studied uses of predictive policing—machine learning models to predict who will commit future crime or where it will occur. In her work, she has demonstrated that if the training data encodes historical patterns of racially disparate enforcement, predictions from software trained with this data will reinforce and—in some cases—amplify this bias. She also currently works on statistical issues related to criminal “risk assessment” models used to inform judicial decision-making. As part of this thread, she has developed statistical methods for removing sensitive information from training data, guaranteeing “fair” predictions with respect to sensitive variables such as race and gender. Lum is active in the fairness, accountability, and transparency (FAT) community and serves on the steering committee of FAT, a conference that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.
How might we learn what we don’t know? HRDAG associate Christine Grillo hits the wayback machine and recalls her first exposure to People Against Bad Things, ideas about bias and correlation versus causation, and truth.
On March 16, Kristen Yawitz joined the HRDAG team in the role of Foundation Relations and Strategy Lead.
2021 Rafto Prize Videos
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So much of what I learned at HRDAG was intangible, and I'm grateful to have been able to go deep.
HRDAG's advisory board has added three new members.
HRDAG is helping the Invisible Institute turn their windfall of raw data about police misconduct into data that can be analyzed.
Larry Barrett has joined HRDAG as a Human Rights and Data Science Intern until February, 2022.
HRDAG colleague Trina Reynolds-Tyler wins a 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting.
A week in the California redwoods amongst a hodgepodge of people united by their passion for using quantitative analysis to combat injustice.
The institution’s objectives were to learn the truth about what happened during the armed conflict.
Paula Amado has joined as a Research Scholar, and María Juliana Durán Fedullo has joined as a Visiting Scholar.
Elizabeth Eagen of the Citizens and Technology Lab at Cornell University will expand the HRDAG advisory board.
Trina Reynolds-Tyler's internship at HRDAG helped her use data science to find patterns in state-sanctioned violence.
