Info 202 Fall 2011

Last week, we passed the 7 billion people mark of the world's population.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/story/2011-09-18/livescribe-echo-r...

Gang crime is a very big problem in America; especially in large urban cities like Los Angeles.  UCLA and the LAPD have recently begun working together on a project that takes over a decade's worth of crime data, distinguishes regular crimes from perceived gang-related crimes, and then attempts to create an algorithm that identifies gang patterns and gang relationships.  This algorithm is also designed to identify which gangs were most likely involved in particular crimes.  In general, involvement by gangs is oft