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Defending Data, Andrew Ferguson
Defending Data, Andrew Ferguson
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Defending Data proposes a data-driven, systems-based approach to improving public defense in America.Public defenders represent millions of defendants every year. Yet, public defense remains a largely data-less enterprise, a black box of discretionary decisions disconnected from any systemic analysis about the relationship between defender practices and case outcomes. Defending Data adopts a novel approach to the crisis of public defense. Building off of the successful implementation of system-based approaches in other complex, high-risk industries such as aviation and medicine, Defending Data explains how defenders can develop a data-driven systems approach to public defense.Defending Data begins by describing the data deficit …
Defending Data, Pamela R. Metzger
Defending Data, Pamela R. Metzger
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Defending Data proposes a data-driven, systems-based approach to improving public defense in America.
Public defenders represent millions of defendants every year. Yet, public defense remains a largely data-less enterprise, a black box of discretionary decisions disconnected from any systemic analysis about the relationship between defender practices and case outcomes. Defending Data adopts a novel approach to the crisis of public defense. Building off of the successful implementation of system-based approaches in other complex, high-risk industries such as aviation and medicine, Defending Data explains how defenders can develop a data-driven systems approach to public defense.
Defending Data begins by describing the …
The Dawn Of Social Intelligence (Socint), Laura K. Donohue
The Dawn Of Social Intelligence (Socint), Laura K. Donohue
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
More information about citizens’ lives is recorded than ever before. Because the data is digitized, it can be accessed, analyzed, shared, and combined with other information to generate new knowledge. In a post-9/11 environment, the legal standards impeding access to such data have fallen. Simultaneously, the advent of global communications and cloud computing, along with network convergence, have expanded the scope of information available. The U.S. government has begun to collect and to analyze the associated data.
The result is the emergence of what can be termed “social intelligence” (SOCINT), which this Article defines as the collection of digital data …