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By Kristina Lorch Parsing an ever-increasing volume of digitized data presents a monumental task for private and public sector organizations whose traditional workflows often constrain analysts. To fill the gap between the demands of big data and dearth of systems properly equipped to exploit it, experts in the field have expounded upon current models of… Read more »
This post originally appeared on The American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project. Full size image available here. By Brenna Snyder, Praescient Analytst Consultant, and Emily Estelle, AEI Analyst June 2, 2016 The Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are competing to be the dominant Salafi-jihadi group in… Read more »
In May 2016 the RAND Corporation published the book Foundations of the Islamic State: Money, Management, and Terror in Iraq 2005-2010, the culmination of a four-year collaboration between the RAND Corporation, DARPA, Princeton University, Praescient Analytics, Palantir, and the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. The project team worked with the Defense community to declassify… Read more »
In April 2016 West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) released preliminary analysis of over 4,600 unique ISIS administrative records, the largest such collection ever circulated in open sources. The majority of these records, originally delivered to NBC News by an ISIS defector, consisted of entry forms for foreign fighters joining the Islamic State. The leaks… Read more »
A Thoughtful Response to Tragedy One of my dearest friends in the Army, someone I had worked with daily for my entire military career, committed suicide last month. I caught myself in between heartbreak and anger, oscillating between two opposing emotions as a way to try and make sense of life, and death. Mostly, it… Read more »
By: Evan Sterling, Analyst Consultant; Praescient Analytics One of the most important aspects of any big data project is data modeling. Data modeling creates the structure your data will live in. It defines how things are labeled and organized, which determines how your data can and will be used and ultimately what story that information… Read more »
By: Evan Sterling, Analyst Consultant; Praescient Analytics The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), two of Praescient Analytics’ partners, are releasing a series of reports entitled U.S. Grand Strategy: Destroying ISIS and Al Qaeda. These reports make up an “intensive multi-week planning exercise to frame, design, and evaluate… Read more »
By: Francis Henry, Analyst Consultant; Praescient Analytics In the days following September 11th, 2001, the leaders in the Special Forces community were quick to realize the importance of intelligence and information to completing their mission. Accessing intelligence, storing it, processing it and subsequently presenting it to decision-makers would be vital to the process of allowing… Read more »
By: Charles Caris, Analyst Consultant, Praescient Analytics Praescient is informing smarter global counterterrorism policy as part of a new initiative by the US Department of State. Launched in September 2015 following remarks by President Barack Obama to the United Nations, the new venture seeks to improve counterterrorism cooperation on the global scale. As the technical lead for this project,… Read more »
In Legaltech News’ article E-Discovery Careers: 10 Notable Trends From the 2015 Year in Review, Praescient Analytics was acknowledged for their ability to provide powerful e-discovery tools to support legal analytics. Click here to read the article: http://www.legaltechnews.com/id=1202745127023/EDiscovery-Careers-10-Notable-Trends-from-the-2015-Year-in-Review#ixzz3vAkxRVdo