by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 10, 2018 | Civic Analytics
Vision Critical has upgraded its Sparq Platform with the addition of text mining and sentiment analysis to its capabilities. The upgrade was part of Vision Critical’s push toward a deeper understanding of their clients’ customers through customer profiling,...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 10, 2018 | Data Science
Google’s newly-launched What-If Tool gives users the ability to analyze a machine learning (ML) model without having to write code for it. Given the increasing scrutiny leveled on the opaque nature of machine learning, the What-If tool will offer greater...
by CivicMeter Staff | Aug 28, 2018 | Civic Analytics
The attraction of predictive policing is that it incorporates a quantitative element into the field of law enforcement. Doing so supposedly introduces mathematical rigor and a scientific basis into decisions about further detention, investigation, sentencing, or...
by CivicMeter Staff | Aug 28, 2018 | Civic Analytics
Models of forest fire behavior have long helped emergency managers prepare for the annual wildfire season in western US states. But the complexity of the wildland-urban transition zone (where wildfires cross into human-occupied areas) that has so far defied attempts...
by CivicMeter Staff | Aug 27, 2018 | Civic Analytics
Chances are that in a few years the faces shown to you in advertisements would have been tailored so you could identify with them and be more receptive to their messages. This form of cost-effective mass customization is now made possible with the development of new...
