Insight Data Science project - Travel Safe app

1. INSIGHT DATA SCIENCE
MARTIN GASCON

2. THE PROBLEM

3. HOW DOES IT WORK?
• retrieve info from the GDELT DB
• select events based on location
• uses a Kernel Density Estimation
The
GDELT
Project
Events: kill, arrest, kidnap, etc.
NumArts: # of articles x event
Number: # of people affected
Geo location
The tools
The algorithm
The Data (30 GB)
The Database
Global Database of Events,
Language and Tone

4. EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS#ofVictims
Sundays
Date (Jul-Aug 2015)
It is better to travel on Sundays

5. EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS
# of Victims
Worldwide victims
(06/2015-01/2016)
2 victims
Number of travelers also matters

6. About me
Martin Gascon
PhD Nuclear Physics, USC (Spain)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Physics Research Fellow, Berkeley Lab

7. EXTRA SLIDES

14. Validation - Violent crime score
Information about
population for each
Mexican State

15. Validation - Homicide score
Information about
population for each
Mexican State
Homicide

16. Validation - Official Data from
Mexico Public Safety office
Information about
population for each
Mexican State

17. Validation - Official Data from
Mexico Public Safety office
Information about
population for each
Mexican State

18. Validation - Official Data from
Mexico Public Safety office
Information about
population for each
Mexican State

19. • advantages and
disadvantages of
each
implementation
• bandwidth

20. • six kernel forms
available in Scikit-learn

21. EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS
# of Victims
Worldwide victims
reflected in at least 4 news
(06/2015-01/2016)
2 victims
• two is the most frequent
number of victims
• multiples of ten are
frequent too
#ofVictims
Sundays
It is better to travel
on Sundays