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Katia Savchuk

Katia Savchuk is a freelance magazine journalist based in Oakland, California.

Human Rights Data Analysis Group Lead Statistician Kristian Lum speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7th, 2018, in San Francisco, California.
Social Justice

Justice by the Numbers: Meet the Statistician Trying to Fix Bias in Criminal Justice Algorithms

When the underlying data they rely on is incomplete—and it often is—the growing use of machine learning tools in America's criminal justice system can have devastating effects.

Ixil indigenous women attend a hearing during the genocide trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt in Guatemala City on August 25th, 2015.
Social Justice

How a Tech Geek Is Using Machine Learning to Hold Human Rights Abusers Accountable

Patrick Ball has advised nine truth commissions, four U.N. missions, and dozens of advocacy groups in more than 30 countries. And his non-profit, the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, "represents, without a doubt, the world's top people doing statistical work on human rights violations."