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Data & SocietyThis primer addresses a number of questions about the role open data can play within the criminal justice system. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer explores unjust bias in the criminal justice system, and explains how, without the right safeguards, there is a real risk that new technologies could become instruments of injustice. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer examines the construction of predictive algorithms; how they are are used in the court system; and the role of data in evidence-based sentencing. Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyPredictive policing refers to the use of analytical techniques to make statistical predictions about potential criminal activity. The basic underlying assumption of predictive policing is that crime is not randomly distributed ... Read moreOctober 2015 -
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Data & SocietyArvind Narayanan is a computer scientist at Princeton. He advised a Master's thesis, described in Section 2, that utilized a similar methodology to the Encore project. Bendert Zevenbergen is a Ph.D candidate and researcher at t... Read moreSeptember 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer maps the peer-to-peer/marketplace lending ecosystem in order to ground the "Data & Fairness" initiative's investigations into its benefits and challenges and potential for fairness and discrimination. Read moreJuly 2015 -
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Data & SocietyIn the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014, as well as the subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri and around the country, there has been a call to mandate the use of body-worn cameras to promote accou... Read moreFebruary 2015 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer addresses the application of big data tools and practices in a criminal justice context, and raises questions about the kinds of data used for analysis and consequences of error, bias, or inaccuracies. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer discusses data-driven education and the increasing use of data in educational reform, while raising both concerns and challenges within this growing field. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyThis primer addresses the persistent obstacles that communities of color face within our consumer finance system, and investigates the role of rapidly changing technologies therein. Read moreOctober 2014