November 25, 2019

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Fighting bad guys with data science

Fighting bad guys with data science

Jonathon Morgan explores computer vision, deep learning, and natural language processing techniques for uncovering communities of white nationalists and neo-Nazis on social media and identifying which ones are on the path to radicalization.

Talk Title Fighting bad guys with data science
Speakers Jonathon Morgan (New Knowledge)
Conference O’Reilly Open Source Convention
Conf Tag Making Open Work
Location Austin, Texas
Date May 8-11, 2017
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
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In research for a recent Washington Post article, Jonathon Morgan uncovered communities of white nationalists and neo-Nazis on social media and showed that they’ve adopted increasingly violent rhetoric over the past nine months. Jonathon explores computer vision, deep learning, and natural language processing techniques for finding these communities and identifying which ones are on the path to radicalization.

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