http://www.welovedc.com/2009/06/02/my-alert-dc-crime-on-your-phone/ Your Life Beyond The Capitol Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.welovedc.com/2009/06/02/my-alert-dc-crime-on-your-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-8370 akaRuthie Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:40:42 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=13387#comment-8370 I tried this for awhile, during the Inauguration because I thought it might give me a heads-up about crowd problems or police activity (it didn't). What I mostly found was that it made me a bit too paranoid... I prefer shiny happy texts. I tried this for awhile, during the Inauguration because I thought it might give me a heads-up about crowd problems or police activity (it didn’t). What I mostly found was that it made me a bit too paranoid… I prefer shiny happy texts.

]]> http://www.welovedc.com/2009/06/02/my-alert-dc-crime-on-your-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-8347 Angry Statistician Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:47:51 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=13387#comment-8347 No! It was not "statistically" "due to happen" -- if no crimes have occurred in the past couple days, there's no reason to believe that the probability of a crime occurring today is higher as a result. In fact, if there's any autoregressive component to crime (that is, crime today is somehow correlated with crime yesterday), it's much more likely that low crime yesterday is positively correlated with low crime today, not vice-versa. No! It was not “statistically” “due to happen” — if no crimes have occurred in the past couple days, there’s no reason to believe that the probability of a crime occurring today is higher as a result. In fact, if there’s any autoregressive component to crime (that is, crime today is somehow correlated with crime yesterday), it’s much more likely that low crime yesterday is positively correlated with low crime today, not vice-versa.

]]> http://www.welovedc.com/2009/06/02/my-alert-dc-crime-on-your-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-8346 Bilsko Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:47:29 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=13387#comment-8346 I signed up for the email version(iphone user, don't like text messages) a few months ago. Its fairly useful - good to see what has happened nearby, and where to avoid, I suppose. My recommendation, if you do sign up, is to be very careful and selective in limiting it to only sending messages for a small area around where you want, otherwise you'll get a flood of texts. I signed up for the email version(iphone user, don’t like text messages) a few months ago. Its fairly useful – good to see what has happened nearby, and where to avoid, I suppose.
My recommendation, if you do sign up, is to be very careful and selective in limiting it to only sending messages for a small area around where you want, otherwise you’ll get a flood of texts.

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