Comments on: Using Data to Find Likely Crime Spots http://flowingdata.com/2007/12/27/using-data-to-find-likely-crime-spots/ Strength in Numbers Tue, 22 May 2012 13:28:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nathan Yau http://flowingdata.com/2007/12/27/using-data-to-find-likely-crime-spots/#comment-49784 Nathan Yau Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:35:00 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/2007/12/27/using-data-to-find-likely-crime-spots/#comment-49784 oh for sure. I don't doubt that there's hundreds of papers about using statistics to find, understand, and fight crime. It's always nice to see Stat in any kind of news form though :) oh for sure. I don’t doubt that there’s hundreds of papers about using statistics to find, understand, and fight crime. It’s always nice to see Stat in any kind of news form though :)

]]> By: Ryan http://flowingdata.com/2007/12/27/using-data-to-find-likely-crime-spots/#comment-984 Ryan Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:11:22 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/2007/12/27/using-data-to-find-likely-crime-spots/#comment-984 There are actually several papers about how social network analysis is being used to find OBL and how to explain the key players during 9/11. The biggest source of the exaggeration on Numb3rs involves small sample sizes. There are actually several papers about how social network analysis is being used to find OBL and how to explain the key players during 9/11.

The biggest source of the exaggeration on Numb3rs involves small sample sizes.

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