by CivicMeter Staff | Apr 24, 2019 | Criminal Justice
The FBI is asking Congress to add $70.5 million to its budget so it can hire more data analysts and expand its cybersecurity capacity in the face of growing threats from hackers supported by rogue nation-states. Derek B. Johnson reports on the FBI’s plan to beef up...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 9, 2018 | Civic Analytics
With losses from food stamp fraud estimated to average around a billion dollars a year, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) commissioned the creation of an algorithm called ALERT to sift through millions of retail transactions to identify potentially fraudulent...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 9, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
Saadia Muzaffar, founder of TechGirls Canada, has resigned from Sidewalk Toronto — a “smart city” project — over concerns about a Google-owned company which is now involved in the project. In her resignation letter from the Sidewalk Toronto...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 9, 2018 | Civic Analytics, Civic Data & Tech
Just because modern data science and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques produce results, it does not mean that more traditional way of social science (i.e. custom data sets created for a specific study) should be discarded. Data science has its own blind spots. A...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 9, 2018 | Civic Data & Tech
An order issued by the Interior Department that is ostensibly meant to increase transparency and accessibility of research data may end up restricting the use of science-based studies in the formulation of federal policy. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) claims...
