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University of Chicago · 2023 — 2024

Policing Research Bias Detection

Created 10+ interactive visualizations and dashboards with Plotly to detect bias in 250+ policing research papers for academic research.

Context

Claims about policing carry more weight when they come from peer-reviewed research, which makes systematic bias in that literature consequential. Detecting it requires reading the corpus as a dataset rather than as individual papers.

Approach

  • Scraped hundreds of media mentions for 250+ policing research papers to detect patterns of bias
  • Built 10+ interactive Plotly visualizations and dashboards to make those patterns inspectable

Outcome

  • Supported "Academic Copaganda" with Dr. Robert Vargas, published in Law and Society Review

Stack

PythonPlotlyData VisualizationResearch