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Can Data Scientists Use Predictive Analytics to Help Police Prevent Deadly Confrontations?

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The age of Big Data presents new opportunities for police departments to potentially predict and prevent violent encounters.

This week, Scientific American came out with an article about the new Police Data Initiative that has researchers and police departments studying predictive analytics to try and improve the effectiveness of officer early warning systems meant to reduce the number of deadly police-civilian encounters.

Large police departments have used early warning systems for decades to flag officers whose behavior may lead to unnecessarily violent confrontations. But these systems have been crude up to now. [Read more…]

Q&A with the UW Data Science Faculty

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Top row: Zamira Simkins, Gaurav Bansal, Ursula Whitcher. Bottom row: David Reineke, Abra Brisbin, Robert Dollinger.

The UW Data Science faculty are an interesting lot, highly credentialed and accomplished in a wide range of fields. Here is your chance to get to know them better. Find out what these experts have to say about the data science field, how they got started in their own disciplines, their words of wisdom for aspiring data science professionals, and more.

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