tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29117034.post2534940913310738124..comments2024-01-08T12:39:20.176+01:00Comments on Data Mining Research - dataminingblog.com: Mining crime informationSandro Saittahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17682082649770875583noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29117034.post-3687600790466670732007-01-11T09:51:00.000+01:002007-01-11T09:51:00.000+01:00I have also met Dr. Oatley from Sunderland univ. i...I have also met Dr. Oatley from Sunderland univ. in a conference. He is applying data mining to criminal data. One of his paper can be found <a href="http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/occasional/2005-04-zeleznikow2.pdf">here</a>.Sandro Saittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17682082649770875583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29117034.post-66605017836445603832007-01-04T20:43:00.000+01:002007-01-04T20:43:00.000+01:00Will Dwinnell is correct re the management of crim...Will Dwinnell is correct re the management of crime. The work in Richmond is based on a "risk-based" deployment strategy, which is very similar to "just-in-time" policing.<br /><br />The deployment study mentioned by Dean Abbott represents only a small fraction of the work that was done in Richmond, which also included motive determination modeling and the analysis of violent crime, as well as some homeland security-related analyses. This work has been replicated and extended to other areas of the country since that study.<br /><br />Kelly McCueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29117034.post-50748599045964270632006-12-05T19:01:00.000+01:002006-12-05T19:01:00.000+01:00The city of Richmond, VA has also implemented a da...The city of Richmond, VA has also implemented a data mining solution more for the purpose of manpower management (for example, when there is a high school football game between rivals, ...). They have presented at the past two SPSS Directions conferences (they are getting a lot of visibility in SPSS circles), but it isn't clear to me if it is really being used or is still in "cool technology" mode. http://www.spss.com/success/pdf/CS%20-%20Richmond%20PD%20LR.pdf<br /><br />I have also spoken with a Southern California police department about identifying at-risk officers from the data they now collect about them. There are very clear hurdles with the unions on this issue, so I think Will's point is well taken. It's obviously not just about the data!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29117034.post-64607705436164835572006-11-07T15:24:00.000+01:002006-11-07T15:24:00.000+01:00One general aspect of law enforcement administrati...One general aspect of law enforcement administration is the <i>management</i> (as opposed to <i>elimination</i>) of crime. Police forces already rotate their efforts to keep criminal activity from festering in one area for too long. Conseuently, data mining efforts to predict crime patterns do not need to be even close to perfect.<br /><br />The police force of a major American city developed a neural network to assess police officers, based on complaints made against them by the public. I was given to understand that the system was fairly accurate in predicting the need for intervention, but the vendor in question told me that the police union shot it down.<br /><br />-Will Dwinnell<br /><a href="http://will.dwinnell.com">http://will.dwinnell.com</a>Will Dwinnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03379859054257561952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29117034.post-23398255561384791932006-11-02T23:51:00.000+01:002006-11-02T23:51:00.000+01:00At KDML-2006 (Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, an...At <a href="http://events.iis.uni-hildesheim.de/lwa06/kdml/default_en.aspx">KDML-2006</a> (Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, and Machine Learning), Shyam Varan Nath from <a href="http://www.oracle.com">Oracle</a> gave a talk titled <i>Crime Patterns Detection Using Data Mining Framework</i> (see second talk in session 2), in which he described an application of data mining to supporting police officers in detecting crime patterns and in thereby better solving crimes.<br /><br />The paper for this talk will be made available online as part of the <a href="http://events.iis.uni-hildesheim.de/lwa06/">LWA-2006</a> proceedings. Please contact the LWA-2006 organizers for the details on when and where these proceedings will be available online.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com