Predictive Analytics for City Agencies: Lessons from Children's Services

Big Data

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 189-196

  Shroff, Ravi ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

and policy; big data industry standards; data acquisition and cleaning; data protection; predictive analytics; privacy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NEW YORK; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; ETHICS; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY;

EID: 85049017783     PISSN: 21676461     EISSN: 2167647X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/big.2016.0052     Document Type: Review

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