{"id":255,"date":"2015-09-29T07:42:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T07:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelhaviland.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2016-02-01T17:08:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T17:08:56","slug":"can-we-use-social-media-to-help-predict-crimes-before-they-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rachelhaviland.com\/can-we-use-social-media-to-help-predict-crimes-before-they-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Use Social Media to Help Predict Crimes Before They Happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently Hitachi thinks we can.<\/p>\n

Remember the experimental \u201cPrecrime\u201d crime-prediction department headed up by Tom Cruise as Chief John Anderton in the 2002 Move Minority Report?<\/p>\n

Well, Hitachi announced this week that it has developed a powerful and robust new technology called \u2018Hitachi Visualization Predictive Crime Analytics<\/strong><\/a>\u2019 that has the ability to pinpoint when and where a crime will occur<\/p>\n

By gathering data from a fire hose of multiple real-time sources, including:<\/p>\n