Equipping users with mathematical understanding and actionable tools will enhance everyone’s understanding of police-related data and enable anyone to derive meaningful insights.
Another advantage Washington State University brings to the WADEPS program is a unique educational resource known as CISER: the Center for Interdisciplinary Statistical Education and Research. Staffed by faculty experts in applied statistics, CISER specializes in the design of data-collection protocols and the statistical analysis of data resulting from research studies.
Stats are for everyone
CISER experts will provide statistical education and analytical services for individual citizens, law enforcement agencies, legislators, and researchers alike to:
- Understand the significance of numbers in the data
- Learn how to derive meaningful insights using trends and measured outcomes
- Compare agency performance across time
- Compare and contrast agencies using contextualized data
Analysis options
Using modern machine learning techniques, including topological data analysis and multimodal inputs, CISER experts will assist with several types of analysis for WADEPS data:
Classification
Models to predict crime, agency responses to crime, and police behavior during these encounters.
Clustering
Identifying patterns of criminal activity, crime demographics, and police behavior during these encounters.
Time-series
Models to predict crime activity using data collected over an interval of time.
Variable importance
Identifying features that are closely related to criminal activity.