Data Mining for Good: Thoreau Center Lunch + Learn

Patrick Ball at Thoreau Center, 2014. / TIDES

Patrick Ball at Thoreau Center, 2014. / TIDES

At the Thoreau Center for Sustainability’s “Lunch and Learn,” Patrick Ball spoke about “Data Mining for Good.” The talk included a discussion of how HRDAG uses random sampling, entity resolution, communications metadata, and statistical modeling to assist prosecutions of human rights violators. With an introduction by John DeCock, Chief Operating and Outreach Officer, Bioneers.

The Thoreau Center for Sustainability
Lunch and Learn
October 23, 2014
San Francisco, California

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