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Discrimination, fairness and prediction in policing : fare evasion in New York City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Predictive policing has quickly become widespread in the United States. Practitioners claim it can greatly increase police efficiency and base decisions on objective statistics. Critics say that these algorithms reproduce ...
A smart diaper wetness detection sensor : concept, design and ethical considerations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Human waste contained in diapers is a rich source of medical health based data. Embedding low-cost, wearable sensors in disposable diapers provides an opportunity for self-health monitoring and advancing preventative ...
Systems architecture perspective on digital transformation for financial services
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The evolution of technology has had a dramatic impact on the way organizations conduct business. These changes have been felt throughout all industries and financial services is not immune to this transformation. However, ...
Mitigating foreign social media influence campaigns in U.S. elections
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The 2016 U.S. presidential campaign was rife with scandal, the greatest of which the Department of Justice exposed in detail in a 2018 indictment that charged a shadowy Russian organization known as the Internet Research ...
A stochastic life cycle and greenhouse gas abatement cost assessment of renewable drop-in fuels
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Assessing socio-economic risks in the supply chain of materials required for vehicle electrification
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Modern automobiles are composed of more than 2000 different compounds comprising at least 76 different elements. Identifying supply risks across this range of materials is important to ensure a smooth transition to ...
Distributed household effects of climate policy in the United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The net effects of various climate policies on households in the United States are assessed, with particular attention to the distribution of economic outcomes across geography, urbanity, and income groups. Climate policy ...
Learning from supply shocks in the energy market : evidence from local and global impacts of the shale revolution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
In this thesis, we carry out three studies of the local and global impacts of supply shocks in energy markets, and also analyze certain properties of these markets. First, the relationship between US power plants and local ...
Distributional effects of net metering policies and residential solar plus behind-the-meter storage adoption
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Several authors argue that net metering schemes (NEM), typically implemented to incentivize investment on distributed energy resources (DER), could be regressive, given that DER adopters in the U.S. are wealthier on average ...
Networked interactions, graphical models and econometrics perspectives in data analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis is composed of two independent parts. In Part I, we study higher-order interactions in both graphical models and networks, i.e., interactions between more than two nodes. In the graphical model setting, we do ...