Rent, Rain, and Regulations--What Predicts Crime in Portland, Oregon?

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Rent, Rain, and Regulations--What Predicts Crime in Portland, Oregon?

Crime poses a particularly interesting data challenge — it is both geospatial and temporal, and may be affected by many different types of variables — weather, city infrastructure, population demographics, public events, and government policy.

In this talk, we delve into the last 6 years of crime in Portland, Oregon, pulling data from a variety of public data sets, including police reports, the US census, Foursquare, newspapers, and the weather. We will talk about how to merge, visualize, and model this type of complex data, using PostGIS, spatial mapping, time-series analyses, and machine learning, and ask what most predicts crime — and what we can do to prevent it in the future.

Meet your Speaker

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Jorie Koster-Hale a broadly-trained data scientist at Dataiku with expertise in healthcare data, neuroscience, and machine learning. She is an award-winning researcher and instructor. Prior to joining Dataiku, she completed her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard.

Jorie currently resides in New York where she helps clients research, analyze, builds and deploy scalable data products.

Who should attend

• New graduates wanting to work as data scientists

• Professionals in any role, across any sector (marketing, healthcare, finance)

• Anyone currently working with data

• Anyone who recognizes that data skills are in high demand

• People wishing to learn how to maximize their use of data

Pre-requisites

A basic understanding of programming/computing and statistics is recommended.

About our Sponsors

Galvanize is an education company that blends the lines between learning and working. We believe in creating easy access for anyone who has the drive and determination to jump into the tech world, especially in entrepreneurship, engineering, and data science. Our campuses are home to students, startups, investors, mentors, and other people who are engaged and excited to level up their skills. To learn more about Galvanize, visit galvanize.com.

Dataiku develops the unique advanced analytics software solution that enables companies to build and deliver their own data products more efficiently. Thanks to a collaborative and team-based user interface for data scientists and beginner analysts, to a unified framework for both development and deployment of data projects, and to immediate access to all the features and tools required to design data products from scratch, customers such as AXA, L’Oreal, Bechtel, Webbmason, Urban Insights, and many more easily apply machine learning and data science techniques to all types, sizes, and formats of raw data to build and deploy predictive data flows.

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