Events

Derek Manky is the chief security strategist & VP of global threat intelligence at Fortinet.

Alvitta Ottley examines the role of machine learning algorithms in expediting visual analysis, revealing data patterns, and fostering the discovery of novel insights — and confronts the risks of data bias, interpretability, and user trust.

Clifford Lynch summarizes recent report releases and other publications and conference reports.

Narges Mahyar discusses community-centered tools that empower the general public to engage in real-world sociotechnical problems.

Graduating 5th Year MIDS students present their data science projects.

Diag Davenport outlines an unexpected pattern of bias underlying officers’ choices to use or not use an algorithmic risk score.

Clifford Lynch outlines emerging trends and issues in networked information and related technologies.

Analyses of police misconduct rely heavily on self-reported law-enforcement data. Dean Knox proposes a research algorithm to deal with unreliable and distorted data.

Alex Chohlas-Wood demonstrates two ways that data science and information technology can improve outcomes in the criminal legal system.