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As part of the ongoing partnership with the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute, Praescient recently supported the analysts at CTP on a project tracking al Qaeda and its associated movements. Using the Palantir software, analysts from CTP and Praescient have tracked the evolution of al Qaeda into a more decentralized movement spanning… Read more »
A principal challenge confronting the counter-trafficking community is the task of mapping and tracking over time the activities of continually evolving trafficking networks that operate on a global scale. In recent years, analytic software platforms have been developed that enable the rapid integration, visualization, analysis, and sharing of massive amounts of unstructured and structured data… Read more »
Last week I attended a CSIS event highlighting the completion of their report, “Trends in Militancy across South Asia,” which highlighted roughly sixteen months of research and field visits to a region that is consistently – but perhaps more now than ever – on the brink. Although the authors and other invited speakers had many… Read more »
The team at Praescient is always eager to find new ways to leverage the many sources of data increasingly available online. We were excited to have the opportunity to describe some of our work in this regard at the recent DC Open Analytics Summit sponsored by IKANOW. At the event, Praescient Vice President Bill Wall… Read more »
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, often referred to as the “Fathers of the Internet,” united once again on April 4th for a talk dubbed “A Look at the Internet’s Future.” The event was hosted by the Princeton Club of Washington as part of its speaker series for Princeton University alumni in the Washington, D.C. area. … Read more »
This post was written by Alis Wang One of the recent popular topics of discussion in the press is the gender gap in the tech industry. Even though women represent over half of the overall workforce in the US, they hold less than a quarter of all technical and computing jobs, and this number falls… Read more »
Projections for global energy demand show massive growth over the next thirty-plus years. The US Energy Information Administration’s International Energy Outlook (2011), for example, suggests that global consumption will grow by 53% from 2008 to 2035. A number of factors drive demand, particularly economic and technological development, and demographics. Energy demand fluctuates with the state… Read more »
On Wednesday, March 27th, Praescient Analytics hosted the third session of our speaker series, the Knowlton Project at the Waterview Conference Center in Arlington. Named for the first American intelligence professional, Thomas Knowlton, these exclusive events bring together leaders in private industry and government for an evening of conversation framed around the most relevant issues… Read more »
This post was written by Alis Wang Fraud and abuse of healthcare services costs the US about $125 to $175 billion per year, with Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse costing taxpayers about $98 billion per year, according to a 2012 study by a RAND analyst. The healthcare system is especially vulnerable to abuse and… Read more »
Praescient Analytics is headquartered in Alexandria, VA – a convenient location for interfacing with the policy makers and thought leaders in the Washington D.C. Metro area. We’ve capitalized on our proximity to the movers and shakers of the region with a speaker series known as The Knowlton Project; a recurring event aimed at bringing together… Read more »