The differently LLM providers have released computer use tools, Google’s Gemini being one of the most recent ones. They way these work, it submits and image, and then does tasks given general instr…| Andrew Wheeler
Before I get to the main gist, I am going to talk about another site. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) paid RTI over $10 million dollars to develop a forensic technology center of excellence…| Andrew Wheeler
A friend recently recommended The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner. It is one of the best books I have read in awhile, so also want to recommend to the readers of my blog. I was vaguely familiar with Bell Labs given my interest in stats and […]| Andrew Wheeler
Most of the major LLM chatbot vendors are now offering a tool called deep research. These tools basically just scour the web given a question, and return a report. For academics conducting literatu…| Andrew Wheeler
For some housekeeping, if you are not signed up, also make sure to sign up for the RSS feed of my crime de-coder blog. I have not been cross posting here consistently. For the last few posts: Using…| Andrew Wheeler
Easily one of the most common critiques I make when reviewing peer reviewed papers is the concept, the difference between statistically significant and not statistically significant is not itself s…| Andrew Wheeler
Have recently participated in several projects that I think went well at the day gig – these were big projects, multiple parties, and we came together and got to deployment on a shortened timeline.…| Andrew Wheeler
The motivation here, prompted by a recent question Abigail Haddad had on LinkedIn: For the machines, the context is hosting a dataset of 150 million rows (in another post Abigail stated it was around 72 gigs). And you want the public to be able to make ad-hoc queries on that data. Examples where you may […]| Andrew Wheeler
Jon Brauer and Jake Day recently wrote a response to my build stuff post, Should more criminologists build stuff on their Reluctant Criminologists blog. Go ahead and follow Jon’s and Jake’s thoughtful work. They asked for comment before posting – I mainly wanted to post my response to be more specific about “how much” I […]| Andrew Wheeler
I have had this thought in my head for a while – criminology research to me is almost all boring. Most of the recent advancement in academia is focused on making science more rigorous – more open methods, more experiments, stronger quasi-experimental designs. These are all good things, but to me still do not fundamentally […]| Andrew Wheeler
One area of prediction in criminal justice I think has alot of promise is using predictive algorithms in place of bail decisions. So using a predictive instrument to determine whether someone is de…| Andrew Wheeler
Two resources I have been consuming lately I would highly recommend: How to measure anything by Douglas Hubbard Keith McCormick’s short LinkedIn courses, particularly just went through estimating r…| Andrew Wheeler
The recent work on investigations in the criminal justice field has my head turning about potential quantitative applications in this area (check out the John Eck & Kim Rossmo podcasts on Jerry…| Andrew Wheeler
Motivated by a recent piece by Wood and Papachristos (2019), (WP from here on) which finds if you treat an individual at high risk for gun shot victimization, they have positive spillover effects o…| Andrew Wheeler
Recently for a crimede-coder project I have been building out a custom library to make nice leaflet maps using the python folium library. See the example I have posted on my website. Below is a scr…| Andrew Wheeler
I’ve previously written code to conduct Aoristic analysis in SPSS. Since this reaches about an N of three crime analysts (if that even), I created an Excel spreadsheet to do the calculations …| Andrew Wheeler
One of the ideas that has come up with the recent GenAI craze is to use these tools to conduct end-to-end data analysis. So you feed it a dataset + a question and out pops an analysis. Mike Zidar h…| Andrew Wheeler
I have posted on Github my notes on creating a word template to use with quarto. And since Quarto is just feeding into pandoc, those who are just using pandoc (so not doing intermediate computation…| Andrew Wheeler
I had a friend the other day interested in a hypothesis along the lines of “I think the mix of crime at a location is different”, in particular they think it will be pushed to more lower level prop…| Andrew Wheeler
