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by saaaam 3342 days ago
Hi. I'm one of the project creators. Happy to answer any questions.
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What specifically are you trying to say/show with this satire?

I mean I get the point but I think you are underestimating the usefulness of models for predicting white collar crime and crime in general by giving a really bad model for doing so. In terms of data analysis, the geotag stuff has decent specificity in terms of narrowing down your universe (from entire US to city blocks), but the face stuff probably doesn't have very good specificity (probably lots of false positives there). A good "data science" person would probably try to find factors with higher specificity. But most of the stuff in this model is already known via common sense and acted upon. The SEC knows to look for white collar crime in Manhattan and not Lebanon NH without such a model.

  As a proof of concept, we have downloaded the pictures of 7000 corporate
  executives whose LinkedIn profiles suggest they work for financial
  organizations, and then averaged their faces to produce generalized
  white collar criminal subjects unique to each high risk zone. Future
  efforts will allow us to predict white collar criminality through
  real-time facial analysis.
I'm guessing that's a riff on this?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04135v1.pdf (Automated Inference on Criminality using Face Images)

Too bad there haven't been enough arrests of financial criminals to get actual mugshots.

I tried to use your app but I still got defrauded. 2/5 stars