Recent Work and Publications

Talks

• Examining Policing Use of Force and Disproportionality through Data (Global Evidence Based Policing Conference - October 2022)
• The importance of a multi-disciplinary approach: How data science helps us understand policing & how policing helps us understand our own data (Society of Evidence Based Policing Conference - May 2021)

Packages and Libraries

• PyDyTuesday (Python) - Automatically download #TidyTuesday datasets

Journals

• Identifying the Impact of Varying Officer Dosage in Crime Hotspots. Varotsis, A. and T. Davies (2021). In preparation

Articles (See more at Medium)

• Automating Knife Classification with Machine Learning (April 2021)
• Predicting Police Call Demand for Fun (and Prophet) (Towards Data Science - May 2020)
• Lessons from Scraping a DarkNet Market (Towards Data Science - April 2020)

Work - Professional

• Met police gather clues to best practice in fighting crime (Financial Times - October 2020) - A Financial Times article on the work of our team designing and testing an intervention to reduce child re-offending
• Domestic abuse in times of quarantine (LSE Centre for Economic Performance - July 2020) - Our team worked with partners at LSE to produce a data-driven dive into the changes in patterns of domestic crime under lockdown, and design an appropriate intervention. Also available as a blog.
• Fighting crime with data and innovation (Behavioural Insights Team Blog - February 2020) - this blog by the SIU Head of Unit summarises some of our recent work and projects