Measuring vaccination coverage and concerns of vaccine holdouts from web search logs

S Chang, A Fourney, E Horvitz - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
To design effective vaccine policies, policymakers need detailed data about who has been
vaccinated, who is holding out, and why. However, existing data in the US are insufficient …

A Bayesian Spatial Model to Correct Under-Reporting in Urban Crowdsourcing

G Agostini, E Pierson, N Garg - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Decision-makers often observe the occurrence of events through a reporting process. City
governments, for example, rely on resident reports to find and then resolve urban …

Domain constraints improve risk prediction when outcome data is missing

S Balachandar, N Garg, E Pierson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.03878, 2023 - arxiv.org
Machine learning models are often trained to predict the outcome resulting from a human
decision. For example, if a doctor decides to test a patient for disease, will the patient test …

Race and Privacy in Broadcast Police Communications

PN Venkit, C Graziul, MA Goodman, SN Kenny… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Radios are essential for the operations of modern police departments, and they function as
both a collaborative communication technology and a sociotechnical system. However, little …

Evidence of What, for Whom? The Socially Contested Role of Algorithmic Bias in a Predictive Policing Tool

M Ziosi, D Pruss - The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a critical, qualitative study of the social role of algorithmic bias in the
context of the Chicago crime prediction algorithm, a predictive policing tool that forecasts …

Perceptive Visual Urban Analytics is Not (Yet) Suitable for Municipalities

T Alpherts, S Ghebreab, YC Hsu… - The 2024 ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The use of Computer Vision, through a Perceptive Visual Urban Analytics (VUA) paradigm,
has been proposed as a way for municipalities to more easily monitor their cities. However …

Perceptions and detection of AI use in manuscript preparation for academic journals

N Chemaya, D Martin - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The rapid advances in Generative AI tools have produced both excitement and worry about
how AI will impact academic writing. However, little is known about what norms are …

The Impact of iBuying is About More Than Just Racial Disparities: Evidence from Mecklenburg County, NC

I Slaughter, EM Brown, N Weber - The 2024 ACM Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Instant buyers (iBuyers)—companies that buy and sell homes based on automated valuation
models (AVMs)—now hold more than 5% market share in some USA cities. In this work, we …

Accurate measures of vaccination and concerns of vaccine holdouts from Web search logs

S Chang, A Fourney, E Horvitz - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.07457, 2023 - arxiv.org
To design effective vaccine policies, policymakers need detailed data about who has been
vaccinated, who is holding out, and why. However, existing data in the US are insufficient …

Towards Instrumented Fingerprinting of Urban Traffic: A Novel Methodology using Distributed Mobile Point-of-View Cameras

M Franchi, D Dey, W Ju - … of the 16th International Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Amidst the replication crisis, it is increasingly clear that we need to understand contextual
factors that drive participant behavior, because those factors influence the applicability of …