{"623339":{"#nid":"623339","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Xie Receives Smart 50 Award for Crime Big Data Analytics Project","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach year the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spring.smartcitiesconnect.org\/Smart50Awards\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESmart 50 Awards\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;in partnership with Smart Cities Connect, Smart Cities Connect Foundation, and US Ignite, recognize global smart cities projects, honoring the most innovative and influential work. This year the awards recognized Yao Xie, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, for her work in developing an algorithm that finds connections between crime incidents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAccording to the Smart Cities Connect website, \u0026ldquo;Strong applicants submitted innovative projects with current or future municipal-scale impact and application.\u0026rdquo; Xie\u0026rsquo;s project was recognized in the governance category; other categories include mobility, energy, citizen life, and networks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nXie is collaborating with the Atlanta Police Department to test the algorithm, which analyzes tens of thousands of police reports within a matter of hours to find patterns between cases, and could help solve serial crimes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSmart Cities Connect will honor all 50 award recipients at an awards gala on March 26 in Kansas City, Missouri.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRead more about Xie\u0026rsquo;s algorithm as part of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/news\/smart-data-revolution\u0022\u003EIPaT In-Depth series\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach year the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spring.smartcitiesconnect.org\/Smart50Awards\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESmart 50 Awards\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;in partnership with Smart Cities Connect, Smart Cities Connect Foundation, and US Ignite, recognize global smart cities projects, honoring the most innovative and influential work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Each year the\u00a0Smart 50 Awards,\u00a0in partnership with Smart Cities Connect, Smart Cities Connect Foundation, and US Ignite, recognize global smart cities projects, honoring the most innovative and influential work."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-15 17:08:35","changed_gmt":"2019-07-15 17:08:35","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"595900":{"id":"595900","type":"image","title":"Yao Xie","body":null,"created":"1505329798","gmt_created":"2017-09-13 19:09:58","changed":"1505329798","gmt_changed":"2017-09-13 19:09:58","alt":"Yao Xie","file":{"fid":"227100","name":"DSC_8609.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_8609.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC_8609.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":518661,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DSC_8609.jpg?itok=gKLaX8Ux"}}},"media_ids":["595900"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167987","name":"smart cities"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}