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by mjfl 3344 days ago
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.