A new tool for collecting and analyzing homicide data: Homicide Media Tracker Part 2
SAGE Concept Grant winner Dr Nechama Brodie introduces the Homicide Media Tracker, a tool currently under development that will enable the collection, curation and analysis of crime data in media. Why is it needed? What kind of data will the tool be able to collect? And what insights can this data afford researchers?
Unlocking crime data for research: An update from 2019's SAGE Concept Grant winners
Text Wash uses machine learning and natural language processing to unlock previously untapped crime data, that so far has been inaccessible to research due to the need to anonymize the personally identifiable information it contains.