IIIT-H | Big Data and Policing - Spring 2019 | Projects

Introduction The goal of this project is to create a Human Trafficking dataset from reliable sources such as news articles, Government agencies, etc and analyse the pain points in this area. Motivation   What is human trafficking? Human trafficking involves recruitment, harbouring or transporting people into a situation of exploitation through the use of violence, deception or coercion and forced to work against their will. In other words, trafficking is a process of enslaving people, coercing them into a situation with no way out, and exploiting them. What is it important?   Did you know that in 2015 alone, Human Trafficking generated $150 billion, more revenue  than Google, Nike, The NFL and Starbucks combined ?!?!   Sounds crazy right? Well there is more to this story than you know, that's why 18th of October is the EU Anti-Trafficking Day.According to a September 2017 report from the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Walk Free Fo...

Cloud Flow Prediction and Client Discovery Using Wireless Networks Introduction: Due to population growth, crowd analysis has become a major interest in social and technical disciplines. Crowd analysis is being used to develop crowd management strategies in public events as well as public space design, visual surveillance and virtual environments to make areas more convenient in order to prevent crowd induced disasters. Identifying crowd patterns in a sample setting (IIIT-H) by WiFi requests sent by mobile devices as they move around. The client locations can be triangulated to know their accurate locations at any point of time. This data will be used to create heatmaps and perform time series analysis Every device, which has Wifi ‘on’, performs ‘Active Scanning’ where it continuously transmits probe requests, which consists of BSSID (Broadcast MAC address), SSID (Zero Length) and MAC (device MAC address).As MAC Addresses are globally unique, hence trackin...

Social Media and Policing Traditionally, Police all over the world have utilised a one-way communication model, sending information to the public either directly or through news media and not receiving communications back. Social media tools are changing these communication models, creating possibilities for interpersonal, participatory, and interactive communications. Our project focuses on the use of the social media tool, Twitter , for the job of policing. We analysed the official Police handles of Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Hyderabad on Twitter. The purpose of our analysis was to determine what type of information is shared by city police departments over Twitter and how the public uses the information shared to converse with the police departments and with each other. Data Collection We analysed 24,110 posts authored by the 4 city police departments and 2,31,589 posts of Twitter users who tagged these handles. The analysis showed that city police depar...

Prologue In today's world, the thought of going through a day without checking notifications from social media platforms is nearly impossible. Social Media has changed the way we connect and interact with the world. Platforms like Twitter, operate with a simple principle, i.e. open for all, no bias towards anyone, almost like ideal equality.  The fact that anyone can write about anything to anyone whilst sitting in the comfort of one's home, struggling in office or while in commute, has both a good and a bad side to it. Terror groups lke ISIS have been active on Twitter since 2014, the time they captured parts of Syria. They use Twitter to spread hatred, radicalize people and recruit new so called 'soldiers'. An astonishing news came to light in December 2014, when an ordinary Software Engineer in Bangalore Shammi Witness was involved with ISIS, helping them by radicalizing and recruiting people. Astonishing thing about this is that he was doing so openly, w...