Diaries of Social Data Research

12. Understanding Conversational Patterns in Police Community Interactions with Vinodkumar Prabhakaran and Camilla Griffiths


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Our guests on this episode are Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, who was a computer science postdoc at Stanford and now a senior research scientist at Google, and Camilla Griffiths, who is a postdoc at Stanford SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions). With Hang Su, Prateek Verma, Nelson Morgan, Jennifer Eberhardt, and Dan Jurafsky, they are co-authors on a TACL 2018 paper, "Detecting Institutional Dialog Acts in Police Traffic Stops".

Vinod and Camilla share with us how this collaboration formed over a common goal and a deep respect for each other’s disciplines. We discuss the considerations that went into forming community partnerships, handling sensitive police body-camera data, and recognizing the implications of their findings.

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