The article ‘Cyber risk and cybersecurity: a systematic review of data availability‘ defined a cyber threat as “operational risks to information and technology assets that have consequences affecting the confidentiality, availability, and/or integrity of information or information systems.” Cybersecurity should be a concern for the individual, local to international buisnesses, and state/government organizations. The article does […]

I just finished my third meeting with my supervisor yesterday and am feeling very excited to get into the main part of research for my final project. We discussed my plan of action as of now which consists of researching past methods that have been used in creating armed conflict models both globally and regionally […]

Through my research process for the assessment in Ethical Data Futures, I began to think a lot more about how as ‘users’, we understand what consent means when agreeing to use a certain product like an Apple iphone, or online applications like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, or Twitter. After watching this Tedx talk by Fred Cate […]

After reading ‘From Academia to policy makers: A Methodology for Real-Time Forecasting of Infrequent Events’ I thought of ways that the skills we acquired in our course ‘Building Near Futures’, could assist future research towards building more accurate conflict forecasting models.  The researchers in this article compared the use and accuracy of multiple forecasting models. They […]

Land, Community, and Power was a very pleasant change scenery compared to other courses I have taken so far this year. At the end of our second day of intensives, the class was able to go on a quick field trip to a community-owned plot of land that grew, harvested and sold their own vegtables. […]

During my first supervisor meeting, we began to discuss the different planning steps of starting my research process. Some of the questions I prepared for her included: which tools to use to identify factors and variables that cause conflicts, If its better to focus on a particular region while researching. Some of the tips that […]

To connect the research paper ‘Assessing The Technical Feasibility of Conflict Prediction for Anticipatory Action‘  with some of the ideas that were introduced in our ‘Ethical Data Futures’ course, it would be both ethical and result in more accurate algorithmic prediction models, if the forecasting process keeps a human-in-the-loop. In the reading ‘Ethical Dimensions of Visualization […]

The different skills from Text Mining for Social Research and Insights Through Data have provided me with a better grasp on using pythons analytical tools and creating visualizations to better understand the data I am working with as well as represent any findindgs and conclusions. I realized that using visualizations is sometimes a necessary tool […]

Predictive analytics is a powerful tool that allows us to peer into the future with remarkable accuracy. Using a combination of advanced statistical techniques, machine learning, and historical data, we are able to identify patterns, forecast trends, and make prediction about how future events may unfold. This strategy has been widely used by businesses looking […]

Hello Everyone! I am super excited to be working with all of you for the next year! So far the Digital Democratic Innovations and Text Mining for Social Research intensives have been great. Mentally draining but very rewarding! Using the recently acquired skills and datasets, I am excited look more into how political and social […]