Helmets? Check. Oxygen tanks? Check. Hoses? Ditto. Algorithms? Yep: the New York City Fire Department is using data mining to predict which of the city’s buildings are at highest risk of catching fire. Now that’s metadata we can get behind. FDNY officials are using a 60-facet algorithm to determine which department-inspected buildings pose the greatest [...]
Helmets? Check. Oxygen tanks? Check. Hoses? Ditto. Algorithms? Yep: the New York City Fire Department is using data mining to predict which of the city’s buildings are at highest risk of catching fire. Now that’s metadata we can get behind. FDNY officials are using a 60-facet algorithm to determine which department-inspected buildings pose the greatest [...]
