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October 2014
Record Linkage and Capture-Recapture in the Analysis of Genocide in Guatemala
Data Mining for Good -- Department of Statistics, University of Indiana–Bloomington. Patrick Ball, speaker. October 20, 2014.
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Data Mining for Good: Using random sampling, entity resolution, communications metadata, and statistical modeling to assist prosecutions for disappearance and genocide in Guatemala
Data Mining for Good: Using random sampling, entity resolution, communications metadata, and statistical modeling to assist prosecutions for disappearance and genocide in Guatemala. Patrick Ball. Chaos Computer Club, Hamburg, December 20, 2013.
Find out more »May 2013
LASA 2013 – Death toll in Guatemala
The Death Toll in Guatemala. Patrick Ball explains the role of statistics and the need for a revised CEH estimate in Guatemala’s 36-year armed conflict. Latin American Studies Association meetings in Washington, DC, May 30 2013. *** Statistician Patrick Ball of Human Rights Data Analysis Group (hrdag.org) gives a talk on new ways to calculate the number of people who died in Guatemala's 36-year armed conflict. Latin American Studies Association (LASA) meetings in Washington, DC, on May 30 2013.
Find out more »Using Data to Prosecute Genocide
Using Data to Prosecute Genocide. Patrick Ball and Marta Elena Casaus. New America Foundation, May 29, 2013. *** On May 10, 2013, Guatemala made history when General Efraín Ríos Montt became the first former head of state to be tried and convicted for genocide in the courts of his own country. The trial revisited one of the most brutal cases of government repression in the Western Hemisphere—a 34-year civil conflict forged by the Cold War in which military-dominated regimes engaged…
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Counting the Toll: The Production and Consumption of Human Rights Data
Counting the Toll: The Production and Consumption of Human Rights Data. Patrick Ball at Mozilla. June 2012. *** Patrick Ball has spent more than twenty years designing databases and conducting quantitative analyses for truth commissions, non-governmental organizations, international criminal tribunals, national tribunals, and United Nations missions in over twenty countries. Using examples from his projects in El Salvador, Kosovo, Colombia, Timor-Leste, and Sierra Leone, Patrick will explore how human rights statistics can be misleading -- and how the limitations can…
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