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Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data
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Re: Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data
#22Clever. One of the more interesting challenges that I've run into in the last few years is just the sheer amount of raw data out there. It's mind-boggling how many problems can be solved if we could sift through that data quickly, from human trafficking down to weather. I'm particularly fascinated by her intuition that writing patterns and templates can identify pimps. I'm not sure how long it would have taken me to…
The USGS learns about earthquakes in regions without censors via Twitter. [1]
I'm of the opinion we have only scratched the surface of what is possible to predict by analyzing realtime data from social networks, user groups and message board communities.
[1] https://blog.twitter.com/2015/usgs-twitter-data-earthquake-d...
Re: Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data
#23I'm really uneasy with police analyzing our social media data, it's heading into thought-crime territory. But there's tons of money to be made off of it.
Why are you saying this? There is literally no mention of social media in this article. The data (at least from the original project) is mined from publicly available data, which could be social media data, but that data has to be made public in the first place.
It is possible that the "Research Grade" version of the program does use that data, but there is no evidence of that here.
Re: Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data
#24Clever. One of the more interesting challenges that I've run into in the last few years is just the sheer amount of raw data out there. It's mind-boggling how many problems can be solved if we could sift through that data quickly, from human trafficking down to weather. I'm particularly fascinated by her intuition that writing patterns and templates can identify pimps. I'm not sure how long it would have taken me to…
The USGS learns about earthquakes in regions without censors via Twitter. [1] I'm of the opinion we have only scratched the surface of what is possible to predict by analyzing realtime data from social networks, user groups and message board communities. [1] https://blog.twitter.com/2015/usgs-twitter-data-earthquake-d...
You mean sensors not censors. Sensors sense, censors censor.
Re: Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
why the downvotes? I meant 'Word' like I agree: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Word
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I disagree
Re: Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
The USGS learns about earthquakes in regions without censors via Twitter. [1] I'm of the opinion we have only scratched the surface of what is possible to predict by analyzing realtime data from social networks, user groups and message board communities. [1] https://blog.twitter.com/2015/usgs-twitter-data-earthquake-d...
You mean sensors not censors. Sensors sense, censors censor.
Indeed I did!