Re: <nettime> Tagging Banksy: Using Geographic Profiling to Investigate a Modern Art Mystery

[Keith Sanborn <mrzero@panix.com>]

It wd be interesting to see these techniques applied to areas of high
levels of police violence to solidify the links to particular precinct
houses, i.e. police stations. Then, one might try a reverse correlation
starting with the addresses of police officers in that station and
seeing whether particular originating districts were more prone to
produce violent officers. 

Keith Sanborn

> On Mar 4, 2016, at 8:02 AM, nettime's evil scientist <nettime@kein.org> wrote:
> 
> The pseudonymous artist Banksy is one of the UK?s most successful
> contemporary artists, but his identity remains a mystery. Here, we use
> a Dirichlet process mixture (DPM) model of geographic profiling, a
> mathematical technique developed in criminology and finding increasing
> application within ecology and epidemiology, to analyse the spatial
> patterns of Banksy artworks in Bristol and London. The model takes as
> input the locations of these artworks, and calculates the probability
> of ?offender? residence across the study area. Our analysis highlights
> areas associated with one prominent candidate (e.g., his home),
> supporting his identification as Banksy. More broadly, these results
> support previous suggestions that analysis of minor terrorism-related
> acts (e.g., graffiti) could be used to help locate terrorist bases
> before more serious incidents occur, and provides a fascinating
> example of the application of the model to a complex, real-world problem.
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