Blessing
Blessing
Murder Accountability Project​
Thomas Hargrove, as a journalist, wondered why a growing number of murders go unsolved and wanted to find the serial killer from the Supplementary Homicide Report. Data included the victim’s age, race, sex, and how the victim was killed. Using cluster analysis, he was able to find patterns in the report to identify serial killers. Patterns in Seattle, Washington was apparent and all over the United States. Thomas attempted to contact local authority about these patterns but they do not want to recognize it as a serial killing. Analytics is utilized to identify patterns for law enforcement to catch criminals and make the world a safer place. Thomas founded Murder Accountability Project to build a community where they analyze data and solve unsolved murders. According to the video, there are “More than 220,000 unsolved murders in the United States.” If you want to apply your data analytics skills to solve unsolved murders, join the Murder Accountability Project. The dashboard below was taken from on www.murderdata.org about victim characteristics 1976-2016.
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Facebook Scandal
Cambridge Analytica harvested 50-60 millions of US voters Facebook users data and utilized to predict and influence voters without the users’ permission. Their goal was to build a psychological profile for each voters using the data harvested in the United States. According to Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower in the scandal, status updates, likes, and private messages were gathered from each profile in 2-3 months. Cambridge Analytica was able to create a campaign that susceptible to people that include the framing, topic, content, tone, medium, and frequency to affect their perspectives. The Facebook users were not aware or directly consent of Cambridge Analytica’s use of their personal data to aid political campaigns. This is privacy invasion and highly unregualted in the United States. This scandal forced Facebook data privacy policies to be updated and allowing Facebook users greater visibility and control of their data. Cambridge Analytica and its parent company SCL Group closed on May 1, 2018. While data analytics is capable to help make the world a better place, it can be used to manipulate us without our permission.
