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Sous la dictature d’Hissène Habré, le ridicule tuait

Patrick Ball, un expert en statistiques engagé par les Chambres africaines extraordinaires, a conclu que la « mortalité dans les prisons de la DDS fut substantiellement plus élevée que celles des pires contextes du XXe siècle de prisonniers de guerre ».


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


Can ‘predictive policing’ prevent crime before it happens?

100x100-sciencemagHRDAG analyst William Isaac is quoted in this article about so-called crime prediction. “They’re not predicting the future. What they’re actually predicting is where the next recorded police observations are going to occur.”


Inside a Dictator’s Secret Police


Estimating Deaths


Death and the Mainframe: How data analysis can help document human rights atrocities


The Atrocity Archives


Carnegie Mellon Partners With Human Rights Data Analysis Group To Improve Syrian Casualty Reporting


Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group


In Syrian Conflict, Real-Time Evidence Of Violations


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


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.


A Human Rights Statistician Finds Truth In Numbers

The tension started in the witness room. “You could feel the stress rolling off the walls in there,” Patrick Ball remembers. “I can remember realizing that this is why lawyers wear sport coats – you can’t see all the sweat on their arms and back.” He was, you could say, a little nervous to be cross-examined by Slobodan Milosevic.


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


Data Dive Reveals 15,000 New Victims of Syria War


How statistics caught Indonesia’s war-criminals


Mining data on mutilations, beatings, murders


The Body Counter


Analyze This!


Benetech Statistical Expert Testifies in Guatemala Disappearance Case


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