Police Data Challenge: Winner Recommendations February 1, 2018
The Police Data Challenge contest brought talented high school and undergraduate students across the nation to show their passion for the good statistics can do.
With the Police Foundationβs efforts to make the information available, the 70 teams used real crime data sets from Baltimore, Seattle and Cincinnati police departments to analyze the best possible solutions for safer communities.
Check out below how the winning teams analyzed the best way to fight crime through statistics:
When to give up? Exploration vs Exploitation A lot of hard working students donβt end up being selected for the scholarships. I should know because i lost 3 years doing it.
Now i turn into a information theoretic game to find when should i have quit the whole process.
Assumption: Your best score will get you scholarship if you are one of the sufficiently prepared student.
Say, entrance exams are the games.
Average for group vs Individual Inspection Paradox
Buses and trains are supposed to arrive at constant intervals, but in practice some intervals are longer than others. This means the buses do not follow schedule exactly. There is always some randomness..With your luck, you might think you are more likely to arrive during a long interval. It turns out you are right: a random arrival is more likely to fall in a long interval because, well, itβs longer.