At princeton i think it was back in 2012, this is when there was the start of enthusiasm over big data was happening. Isple were saying big data transforming everything from finance to sports to journalism, marketing, insurance, education. But no one was yet working on how big data would or would not transform the criminal Justice System. Id had a longstanding interest in the criminal Justice System and i started to ask, how are the police, courts, corrections, leveraging things like predictive algorithms and how is it changing daily operations . I quickly realized there was not actually ironically very good data,n police use of big and thats when i decided to pursue an ethnographic study on that question. Susan we will have lots of time to explore the details, but what is the conclusion you came to after you spent this amount of time investigating the topic . Sarah the conclusion is basically that instead of thinking about data as some sort of objective or fundamentally unbiased tool,
Princeton. She is a specialist in 19th and 20th century history. She specializes in gender, race, labor, and the history of the United States south. A little bit about her publications, which are multiple awardwinning, her most recent book is bound in wedlock slave and free black marriage in the nineteenth century. Published in 2017. A book about African Americans and marriage in the 19th century, a winner of multiple awards. And a variety of other prizes. The list goes on and on. Let me mention her first book about women after the civil war. Another multiple prizewinning book. Dr. Hunter has agreed to come here today and talk with us specifically about the history of emancipation, the end of slavery during the civil war, a topic always on peoples agenda for teaching and discussion but particularly widely discussed earlier this summer the anniversary of juneteenth. That is what got us started thinking about inviting her to speak with us about that history, which is complicated, excitin
Cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Susan sarah brayne, your new book seems like it is welltimed for a National Debate on policing, but you tell readers youve been working on the project about a decade. How did you get started in this interest in big data and the police . Sarah when i was a phd student at princeton i think it was back in 2012, this is when there was the start of enthusiasm over big data was happening. People were saying big data is transforming everything from finance to sports to journalism, marketing, insurance, education. But no one was yet working on how big data would or would not transform the criminal Justice System. Id had a longstanding interest in the criminal Justice System and i started to ask, how are the police, courts, corrections, leveraging things like predictive algorithms and how is it changing daily operations . I quickly realized there was not actually ironically very good data on police use of big data, and thats when i decided to p
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] susan sarah brayne, your new book seems like it is welltimed for a National Debate on policing, but you tell readers youve been working on the project about a decade. How did you get started in this interest in big data and the police . Sarah when i was a phd student at princeton i think it was back in 2012, this is when there was the start of enthusiasm over big data was happening. People were saying big data is transforming everything from finance to sports to journalism, marketing, insurance, education. But no one was yet working on how big data would or would not transform the criminal Justice System. Id had a longstanding interest in the criminal Justice System and i started to ask, how are the police, courts, corrections, leveraging things like predictive algorithms and how is it changing
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