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Nonprofit Quarterly
November 3, 2017
He also co-developed a project with human rights data expert Patrick Ball called Martus, “a self-encrypting and self-replicating information collection and management tool to help human rights investigators keep their data safe from prying eyes… Hundreds of human rights groups around the world triedÃÂ ...
TechCrunch
November 1, 2017
Fruchterman created the organization to house a number of ongoing projects, including around human rights, the environment and other fields. ... wants to help the entire Silicon Valley software and data ecosystem transform the world of disadvantaged communities and the social sector that serves them.
Science Magazine
June 26, 2017
When Patrick Ball was introduced to Ibero's database, the director of research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group in San Francisco, California, saw an opportunity to turn the data into a predictive model. Ball, who has used similar models to document human rights violations from Syria to Guatemala,ÃÂ ...
Wired
December 29, 2013
HAMBURG - Here's what Patrick Ball wants the technology world to know: Data, by itself, isn't truth. Even big data. But data plus a little bit of science can get you close. Ball is executive director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, an organization that uses data-analysis and statistical methods to shedÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 26, 2012
In the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, Patrick Ball, an American statistician, presented numbers to support the case that Milosevic had pursued a deliberate policy of ethnic .... Ball, working for a Salvadoran human rights group, had started producing statistical summaries of the data the group had collected.
The Australian
August 29, 2017
... marriage is against the fundamental tenets of the APS Code of Ethics and the human rights of LGBTQI+ people. ... Patrick Ball, Fern Tree, Tas.
Science Magazine
June 26, 2017
Last week, a team of data scientists and human rights researchers ... When Patrick Ball was introduced to Ibero's database, the director ofÃÂ ...
Quartz
April 19, 2017
A team of multi-country researchers, data scientists, and statisticians is ... Mexico City; and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), ... They've created a comprehensive database of the details behind every report of a hidden grave. ... Patrick Ball, HRDAG's Director of Research and the statisticianÃÂ ...
Ars Technica UK
April 17, 2017
That's why, with the help of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) ... Patrick Ball, director of research at HRDAG, working with RuizÃÂ ...
SiliconANGLE (blog)
February 3, 2017
Human Rights Data Analysis Group is using technology to analyze ... as a statistician at Benetech where she collaborated with Patrick Ball,ÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
October 19, 2016
My colleagues and I at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) ... that refer to the same deaths, called “database de-duplication.
Foreign Affairs
September 14, 2016
By Patrick Ball ... In discussions with numerous human rights activists working in developing ... They told me about a few of the groups using cryptography to protect their data: journalists' associations in Egypt, Nicaragua,ÃÂ ...
Wired
December 29, 2013
HAMBURG - Here's what Patrick Ball wants the technology world to ... Ball is executive director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group,ÃÂ ...
The Australian
March 2, 2017
The subjective waffle of section 18C reminds me of Bill Leak's Alice in Wonderland cartoon where Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs claims to make words mean anything that she wants them to.
Patheos (blog)
January 25, 2017
... and gives the accurate (if clickbaity and sarcastically phrases) headline "TV Ratings For Donald Trump's Inauguration Were Tiny!
Boing Boing
November 11, 2016
At the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, we've been holding heads of state accountable for human rights violations for a quarter century.
Foreign Policy (blog)
October 19, 2016
Our calculation began by combining data from four Syrian NGOs: the Violations Documentation Centre, the Syrian Network for Human Rights, the Damascus Center for Human Rights, and the Syrian Center for Statistics and Research. We combined eachÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
September 1, 2016
The research director at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), Patrick Ball, explains in a recent episode of the Rights Track that quantitative analysts must be careful in their use of the incomplete and statistically biased data sets that ...
Devex
July 29, 2016
Data scientists are programmers who ignore probability but like pretty graphs, said Patrick Ball, a statistician and human rights advocate who cofounded the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. "Data is broken," Ball said. "Anyone who thinks they're going ...
FedScoop
July 11, 2016
Patrick Ball, director of research at the San Francisco, California-based Human Rights Data Analysis Group, said international journalists and human rights advocates supported by the State Department are among those that would suffer from any U.S ...
Boing Boing
March 6, 2016
Statistician Patrick Ball runs an NGO called the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, which uses extremely rigorous, well-documented statistical techniques to provide evidence of war crimes and genocides; HRDAG's work has been used in the officialÃÂ ...
Boing Boing
March 6, 2016
Statistician Patrick Ball runs an NGO called the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, which uses extremely rigorous, well-documented statistical techniques to provide evidence of war crimes and genocides; HRDAG's work has been used in the official ... To ...
Defense One
February 16, 2016
"There are very few 'known terrorists' to use to train and test the model," Patrick Ball, a data scientist and director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, explained to Ars Technica. "If they are using the same records to train the model as they ...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
January 24, 2016
Red Lion Controls has been named a "First Team Supplier" in four categories by the readers of Automation World magazine for the fifth consecutive year: Data Acquisition Hardware, HMI Harware, Networking Components - Wired and Networking Components ...
