Ask HN: Any open source code/materials on predicting future crimes based on data?

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Post by febin » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 2:47 PM UTC

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Post by netrus » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 2:54 PM UTC

Have you checked kaggle for relevant datasets?

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Post by thisisit » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 3:18 PM UTC

Are you looking for tools or data?

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Post by febin » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 3:22 PM UTC

thisisit wrote: post #3

Are you looking for tools or data?

I am looking for tools or algorithms.

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Post by WhitneyLand » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 3:26 PM UTC

Do you know about the journalist who spent years obsessing about this and supposedly had some predictive success relating to serial killers?

If I recall it was kind of a lone wolf effort, so I don’t know the rigor of his techniques, howver you never know if he might want to share results or collaborate.

Don’t have a link handy, but that should be enough info to google if you’re interested.

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Post by jjoonathan » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 3:30 PM UTC

Ask HN: Any open source code/materials on predicting good fall guys based on data?

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Post by zebrafish » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 3:32 PM UTC

Believe I heard about a project a UW student did predicting crime in San Francisco based on volume of vulgar tweets in a given area. Not sure if it's on github anywhere but you can always start with that idea. Nothing about specifics of the crimes, just where a high volume of them would be located.

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Post by amigoingtodie » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

You need to watch Person of Interest and Minority Report.

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Post by thedrake » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

A lot of good work by Cynthia Rudin http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/big.2014.0021 and her tools are open sourced (her papers https://users.cs.duke.edu/~cynthia/papers.html and tools https://users.cs.duke.edu/~cynthia/code.html)

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Post by febin » Thu, Dec 21, 2017, 3:37 PM UTC

amigoingtodie wrote: post #8

You need to watch Person of Interest and Minority Report.

I watched POI. I also heard cops using ML to predict crime locations. I am trying to find and reuse some existing code for a different project.