Participants in London this year competed to win prizes in one of several categories:
Best new tool or solution for working with the vulnerable
Most likely to impact and reduce violence
Most interesting new solution to tackling hate crime
Researchers in several fields presented brazil rcs data their work on the CSEW dataset at the Users’ Conference this year, and their insights have helped to inspire some of the people who came, and fed into their projects.
The collection of data sources we made available to our participants is available here.
The CSEW dataset used was: Office for National Statistics, Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2016-2017 [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], February 2018. SN: 8321.
The work undertaken was non-disclosive – no attempt was made to identify individuals, nor was any information derived. The research outputs – specifically the graph for charting model performance – contains no identifying features.
Presentations
Dr Dainis Ignatans, from Huddersfield, has done some very interesting work on repeat victimisation – showing attributes that help to identify repeat victims, and demonstrating the impact on crime of safeguarding and protecting them. He was kind enough to provide a narrated presentation for us covering the main points of his research.
This inspired data scientist Keiran Suchak, from Leeds University, to develop a model that attempted to detect repeat victims amongst the CSEW data available online.