This week in class, we discussed the accuracy of near neighbor classification. Mahnoor had brought up the question “How well can we predict which demonstrations will be violent?” She came up with the “Poison the pool” algorithm, looking at the nearest neighbors, and if one of the closest neighbors is violent, then the original event you were looking into will be violent. As always Mahnoor had a very interesting presentation.

Regarding our project, I spent the rest of class time continuing to clean up data to be able to create the necessary maps.