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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.


The Body Counter


Benetech Statistical Expert Testifies in Guatemala Disappearance Case


Inside a Dictator’s Secret Police


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!


Chad: Habré Knew of Deaths in His Jails


Data Dive Reveals 15,000 New Victims of Syria War


Death March

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


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


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


In Syrian Conflict, Real-Time Evidence Of Violations


Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group


The ghost in the machine

“Every kind of classification system – human or machine – has several kinds of errors it might make,” [Patrick Ball] says. “To frame that in a machine learning context, what kind of error do we want the machine to make?” HRDAG’s work on predictive policing shows that “predictive policing” finds patterns in police records, not patterns in occurrence of crime.


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


Estimating Deaths


Our work has been used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations. We have worked with partners on projects on five continents.

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