Data Science in Crime Fighting
Karun Thankachan
Senior Data Scientist @ Walmart | DS/ML Mentor | RecSys Researcher | Inventor
Police in Washington State say they have made an arrest in connection to the murders of a Victoria-area couple more than 30 years ago. They stated the suspect's DNA collected at the scene was used to identify suspects’ ancestors, which led them to him. The technology behind this turnaround – Genetic Genealogy, combines data analytics with genealogy research to find ‘similar DNA’ and extrapolate the identify (recognizable features) of a victim/suspect.
The image shows a suspect’s caricature generated from genealogy analytics and side by side the real picture of a possible suspect. Data Science is limitless
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