In 2019, HRDAG aimed to count those who haven't been counted.
In 2020, HRDAG provided clarity on issues related to the pandemic, police misconduct, and more.
HRDAG is helping the Invisible Institute turn their windfall of raw data about police misconduct into data that can be analyzed.
Megan Price (2022). Beautiful game, ugly truth? Significance, 19: 18-21. December 2022. © The Royal Statistical Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/1740-9713.01702
Megan Price (2022). Beautiful game, ugly truth? Significance, 19: 18-21. December 2022. © The Royal Statistical Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/1740-9713.01702
This past year at HRDAG has been about continuing efforts to uncover the truth.
In 2023, HRDAG continued to learn from our partners about resilience and patience.
In 2024, HRDAG maximized AI's strengths to support partners.
CHANCE magazine
The challenges and opportunities researchers face when working with unstructured data are hardly new. This article defines unstructured data as data that is not organized according to pre-existing schemas or structures for the sake of statistical analysis. Unstructured data poses a unique challenge for researchers focused on police and policing. The article discusses a definition of unstructured data and two of the primary challenges faced when working with such data, namely information extraction and classification problems. Two case studies are used to illuminate the challenges.
Tarak Shah, Cristian Allen, Ayyub Ibrahim, Harlan Kefalas, and Bavo Stevens (2024). The Use of Unstructured Data to Study Police Use of Force. 5 December, 2024. CHANCE, 37 (4), 18–23. © The American Statistical Association (ASA) and Taylor & Francis Group 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/09332480.2024.2434437
People filed complaints against NYPD officers, and HRDAG went above and beyond to protect the privacy of the people who reported the offenses.
IPFS is a peer-to-peer storage network that promotes the resiliency, immutability, and auditability of data. This README explains code written to shepherd the files from janky external USB drives to IPFS.
Dr. Patrick Ball recently visited the Plutopia News Network podcast for a wide-ranging, inspiring conversation about his work for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group.
Patrick spoke about how he first discovered human rights work during his time in El Salvador with the Peace Brigades International. That led to his ongoing work as a statistician and computer programmer working to assess and analyze human rights violations. He also unpacked some common statistical techniques used by researchers at Human Rights Data Analysis Group, such as multiple systems estimation, which uses multiple different datasets to gain insights into the data we don't ...
As statisticians, we bring skepticism to every dataset and every conclusion. When we make conclusions about a research topic, we offer up our evidence, reasoning, and calculations for review. Most importantly, we talk about the degree of confidence we have in our findings and how we can use scientific models to improve that confidence.
