by CivicMeter Staff | Jul 22, 2019 | Civic Analytics, Nonprofit Management
A new study labeled “Beyond the Algorithm: Pretrial Reform, Risk Assessment, and Racial Fairness” by the Center for Court Innovation found out that algorithm-based risk assessments would send 25 percent of black defendants to jail before trial compared only 10 percent...
by CivicMeter Staff | Oct 10, 2018 | Civic Analytics
Millions of research papers in Europe, previously behind journal paywalls, may soon become open for text and data mining, thanks to new legislation which will receive final approval in January. Academic researchers can rejoice. But if you’re a startup, getting...
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 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 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 Analytics
For all its effectiveness in processing huge amounts of archived information, data science is well-served by real-time, real-world inputs that adds a necessary ‘ground truth’ component that anchors the decision process in reality. The City of Waco, Texas has launched...
