All: Perhaps some of you will be interested in these links describing how journalists -- well, at least ONE journalist -- used AI, and specifically the "Random Forest" algorithm, to uncover government agency surveillance activities at home and abroad. See especially the first and the last link.
Any thoughts on other applications of this methodology? Tom ============================================ Tom Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) Society of Professional Journalists <http://www.spj.org> *Check out It's The People's Data <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>* http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com ============================================ On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Peter Aldhous <pe...@peteraldhous.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Excuse the shameless self-promotion, but I thought some folks on the list > might be interested in this: using the random forest algorithm on > flight/aircraft data to identify potential spy planes. > > 1) https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/hidden-spy-planes > > Here are the other two recent stories that it spawned: > > 2) https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/us-marshals-spy-plane-over-mexico > > 3) https://www.buzzfeed.com/christianstork/spy-planes-over-american-cities > > And here are the methods/data/code: > > 4) https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2017-08-spy-plane-finder/ > > Thanks also to colleagues Christian Stork and Karla Zabludovsky for their > excellent reporting on these stories. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > -- > *Peter Aldhous*, PhD > Science journalist > cell: 415 503 7323 <(415)%20503-7323> > pe...@peteraldhous.com > @paldhous <https://twitter.com/paldhous> > www.peteraldhous.com > ==================================================================== To > unsubscribe from NICAR-L, please send "unsubscribe NICAR-L" in the body of > an e-mail message to "lists...@lists.missouri.edu". Please e-mail > listmas...@ire.org if you need help or have questions. > ==================================================================== -- Jacqueline Kazil | @jackiekazil ==================================================================== To unsubscribe from NICAR-L, please send "unsubscribe NICAR-L" in the body of an e-mail message to "lists...@lists.missouri.edu". Please e-mail listmas...@ire.org if you need help or have questions. ====================================================================
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