Microsoft, Google, Harvard, and DeepLearning have all released free courses on AI and ChatGPT. Here are the top 10 free courses I'd recommend to learn AI in 2023:

[CALL FOR PAPERS] @DrLauraHuey and I are guest editing a special collection in Crime Science Journal. We welcome contributions advancing explanations of crime reporting and studying the practical implications of under-reporting for the criminal justice system biomedcentral.com/collections/CP…

Good blog post from Andrew Wheeler showing how to use one of the #R libraries I wrote to measure the dispersal of crime increases across cities. #rstats andrewpwheeler.com/2021/02/02/the…

#GeoAI The "Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence" is published! We are so grateful for over 90 scholars worldwide contributing to this exciting GeoAI handbook; a resource for educators, students, and researchers. Song Gao Yingjie Hu (@yingjiehu.bsky.social) Wenwen Li doi.org/10.1201/978100…

Yes #gis has changed ! ⁦Esri GIS Education⁩

A good explanation of some of the many and varied things police have to deal with, the limited resources they have, and how that means they can't always respond as quickly as they'd like to (even in a big city like London which has more police than many other places). 👇

This afternoon Alina Ristea is inducting the geographers of UCL CASA into the world of studying why crime concentrates in different places at different times (here using the example of crime around football stadia).

Women are 4-times more likely to have autoimmune diseases than men. Why is this? From Dou et al. in Cell, today In females, the second X chromosome is silenced by a long non-coding RNA, called Xist (pronounced 'exist') - males don't express Xist Xist, together with almost

This thread explains a very good example of how well-designed situational crime prevention (in this case, ticket gates to stop fare evasion) can be both effective and cost far less than the costs of the crime it prevents:

Happened on Friday a group of men armed with weapons tried to enter a ( Marquis Cornwallis ) pub near Russell Square station where they tried to rob customers in the pub and a person was hit on the head with a bat.

‼️URGENT: Help evacuate the family of UCL PhD student from Gaza ‼️ Adham’s family are trapped in Gaza, their homes have been destroyed and they’ve been displaced multiple times. We have a responsibility to help. Link is in our bio:

Join us on 14 March at 6pm for our PhD open evening! Taking place online and in person, this event is an opportunity to see what programmes we have available, check our scholarship opportunities and speak to our staff and students. To register, go to buff.ly/49hxGkb

The Crypto Protect Team were at London Met Uni today running a stall to reverse-scam students. This initiative is to raise awareness amongst young adults of financial exploitation and money laundering #CryptoProtect

📢New paper: "Effect of mobile food environments on fast food visits" in Nature Communications. Using large-scale data and 62Million visits to food places we investigate what drives people to visit fast food places where they happen. And that is well beyond homes! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Is it possible to reliably compare crime rates across the developed world’s largest cities? Actually, it’s harder than you might think, but for interesting reasons. A thread for nerds 🤓…

Last month I gave a talk: can chatGPT pass my statistics module? exploring how we might use GPT's data analyst in teaching stats. I've now written that up in a blog post: rekadata.net/blog/2024-04-1… I am no expert, only a curious novice, so feedback and alternative opinions welcome!

So happy to be there for Catalina Mellado’s journey! Well done!

Is London a dangerous city? One way to answer that is to compare London to other major global cities. TL;DR: crime in London isn’t particularly high compared to other global cities in Europe and North America, but is higher than in Asia. A thread 🧵 …

What makes a railway station safe and for whom? The impact of transit environments on passengers’ victimisation and safety perceptions ⁦Gabriel Gliori⁩ ⁦catherine.sundling⁩ #tunnels #staff ⁦KTH Royal Institute of Technology⁩ ⁦Södertörns högskola⁩ etrr.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

Riley Tucker from the University of Chicago presenting on what AI and online data can teach us about the geography of crime. datascience.uchicago.edu/insights/using… UCL Crime Science