Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems-Predictive Analytics in Criminal Justice.ppt

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Predictive Analytics in Criminal Justice

Motivation: Biases in Human Decision Making

Racial Discrimination in Hiring

Racial Discrimination Among Airbnb Hosts

Biases due to Decision Fatigue

Studying Decision Fatigue in Parole Decisions

Can Machines Help Humans Overcome Biases?

Decisions to Jail vs. Release Defendants

Data Used for Empirical Analysis

Methodology: Machine Learning Using Decision Trees

Hypothetical Decision Tree for Decision to Jail Defendant

Prediction Errors vs. Size of Decision Tree

Comparing Machine Predictions to Human Predictions

Predictive Policing

Debate Regarding Predictive Analytics