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Megan Price: Life-Long ‘Math Nerd’ Finds Career in Social Justice

“I was always a math nerd. My mother has a polaroid of me in the fourth grade with my science fair project … . It was the history of mathematics. In college, I was a math major for a year and then switched to statistics.

I always wanted to work in social justice. I was raised by hippies, went to protests when I was young. I always felt I had an obligation to make the world a little bit better.”


The Forensic Humanitarian

International human rights work attracts activists and lawyers, diplomats and retired politicians. One of the most admired figures in the field, however, is a ponytailed statistics guru from Silicon Valley named Patrick Ball, who has spent nearly two decades fashioning a career for himself at the intersection of mathematics and murder. You could call him a forensic humanitarian.


Inside a Dictator’s Secret Police


Death March

A mapped representation of the scale and spread of killings in Syria. HRDAG’s director of research, Megan Price, is quoted.


In Syrian Conflict, Real-Time Evidence Of Violations


Patrick Ball on the Perils of Misusing Human Rights Data


The Panic Button: High-Tech Protection for Human Rights Investigators


Data Analysis By Benetech Scientists Aid in Arrest of Former Guatemalan Police Chief


Benetech Scientists Publish Analysis of Indirect Sampling Methods in the Journal of the American Medical Association


Analyze This!


Guatemalan Ex-Cops Get 40 Years for Labor Leader’s Slaying


The Body Counter


Data Mining on the Side of the Angels

“Data, by itself, isn’t truth.” How HRDAG uses data analysis and statistical methods to shed light on mass human rights abuses. Executive director Patrick Ball is quoted from his speech at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.


Syrian Death Toll Reaches 60,000, Says UN Rights Agency


Mining data on mutilations, beatings, murders


60,000 Dead in Syria? Why the Death Toll is Likely Even Higher


Benetech Celebrates Milestone; Human Rights Data Analysis Group Transitioning into Independent Organization


Data Dive Reveals 15,000 New Victims of Syria War


Estimating Deaths


Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group


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