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In reality we have no practical way to take the DOJ's data table to find the number of black on white crimes? Let me introduce you to data science. First I'll
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
In reality we have no practical way to take the DOJ's data table to find the number of black on white crimes?
Let me introduce you to data science. First I'll read the numnbers in row 2 column 2 and row 2 column 5. Then I'll plug them into ipython:
$ ipython
...
In [4]: 4091971*0.137
Out[4]: 560600.027
Do the same for row 3 col 2 and row 3 col 4:
In [6]: 955800 * 0.104
Out[6]: 99403.2
Looks like the article was right after all.
Whew, that was hard. Took all the skills I learned in my math Ph.D. to finish the job. Just lucky I didn't have to break out Hadoop. If I wasn't a professional statistician I wouldn't have had a prayer.
- ceejayoz 11y agoThat's not data science, that's middle school multiplication. Data science would be trying to find out why and putting it into context, especially if there are variables in play that aren't shown by a cursory look. Which a white supremacist has little interest in.
- Nadya 11y agoNobody wants to study why because they'd be labeled as racists and lose their job the moment any group of crybullies discovered what they were researching. So it goes largely untouched, which only does the actual racists more benefit because they can use and represent the data to fit their narrative because there is no other narrative because nobody wants to touch the data. It's a self-feeding loop.
- AnimalMuppet 11y agoI'm stealing the term "crybullies". It's beautiful.