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


The Atrocity Archives


Data Dive Reveals 15,000 New Victims of Syria War


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


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


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


Patrick Ball on the Perils of Misusing Human Rights Data


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


Chad: Habré Knew of Deaths in His Jails


The Body Counter


Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group


Inside a Dictator’s Secret Police


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


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.


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


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


Hissène Habré, le Pinochet Africain


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


Capture-Recapture for Casualty Estimation and Beyond: Recent Advances and Research Directions

Daniel Manrique-Vallier, Patrick Ball, Mauricio Sadinle. (2022). Capture-Recapture for Casualty Estimation and Beyond: Recent Advances and Research Directions. In: Carriquiry, A.L., Tanur, J.M., Eddy, W.F. (eds) Statistics in the Public Interest. Springer Series in the Data Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75460-0_2

Manrique-Vallier, D., Ball, P., Sadinle, M. (2022). Capture-Recapture for Casualty Estimation and Beyond: Recent Advances and Research Directions. In: Carriquiry, A.L., Tanur, J.M., Eddy, W.F. (eds) Statistics in the Public Interest. Springer Series in the Data Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75460-0_2


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