Marco Jacquemet on Sat, 5 Mar 2016 00:21:14 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> Tagging Banksy: Using Geographic Profiling to 

   It would be nice to have a link to a free download of this article.
   Right now the only option is Francis and Taylor website, where they
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   (especially in Europe, see for instance https://sci-hub.io/ or
   http://thecostofknowledge.com/) against this prostitution of
   scholarship.

   On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 5:02 AM, nettime's evil scientist <[email protected]> wrote:

     The pseudonymous artist Banksy is one of the UKâs most successful
     contemporary artists, but his identity remains a mystery. Here, we use
     a Dirichlet process mixture (DPM) model of geographic profiling, a
     mathematical technique developed in criminology and finding increasing
     application within ecology and epidemiology, to analyse the spatial
     patterns of Banksy artworks in Bristol and London. The model takes as
     input the locations of these artworks, and calculates the probability
     of âoffenderâ residence across the study area. Our analysis highlights
     areas associated with one prominent candidate (e.g., his home),
     supporting his identification as Banksy. More broadly, these results
     support previous suggestions that analysis of minor terrorism-related
     acts (e.g., graffiti) could be used to help locate terrorist bases
     before more serious incidents occur, and provides a fascinating
     example of the application of the model to a complex, real-world
     problem.

     Hauge, Michelle V., Mark D. Stevenson, D. Kim Rossmo, and Steven C.  Le
     Comber. 2016. âTagging Banksy: Using Geographic Profiling to
     Investigate a Modern Art Mystery.â Journal of Spatial Science, March,
     1â6. doi:10.1080/14498596.2016.1138246.
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   University of San Francisco
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