human rights Math against crimes against humanity: Using rigorous statistics to prove genocide when the dead cannot speak for themselves Cory Doctorow
human rights Using statistics to estimate the true scope of the secret killings at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
happy mutants Garbage In, Garbage Out: machine learning has not repealed the iron law of computer science Cory Doctorow
politics Support the Human Rights Data Analysis Group in rooting out human rights abuses in Trump's America Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
police Though crime happens everywhere, predictive policing tools send cops to poor/black neighborhoods Cory Doctorow
politics Weapons of Math Destruction: invisible, ubiquitous algorithms are ruining millions of lives Cory Doctorow
nofrontdoor Supreme Court: Police can't hold suspects without probable cause, to wait for drug-sniffing dog Xeni Jardin
Science Death and the Mainframe: How data analysis can help document human rights atrocities Maggie Koerth
law Guatemala: Rios Montt genocide trial, day 18. "If I can't control the Army, then what am I doing here?" Xeni Jardin