It wd be interesting to see these techniques applied to areas of high levels of police violence to solidify the links to particular precinct houses, i.e. police stations. Then, one might try a reverse correlation starting with the addresses of police officers in that station and seeing whether particular originating districts were more prone to produce violent officers.
Keith Sanborn > On Mar 4, 2016, at 8:02 AM, nettime's evil scientist <[email protected]> wrote: > > The pseudonymous artist Banksy is one of the UK?s most successful > contemporary artists, but his identity remains a mystery. Here, we use > a Dirichlet process mixture (DPM) model of geographic profiling, a > mathematical technique developed in criminology and finding increasing > application within ecology and epidemiology, to analyse the spatial > patterns of Banksy artworks in Bristol and London. The model takes as > input the locations of these artworks, and calculates the probability > of ?offender? residence across the study area. Our analysis highlights > areas associated with one prominent candidate (e.g., his home), > supporting his identification as Banksy. More broadly, these results > support previous suggestions that analysis of minor terrorism-related > acts (e.g., graffiti) could be used to help locate terrorist bases > before more serious incidents occur, and provides a fascinating > example of the application of the model to a complex, real-world problem. <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
