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Combating Gun Trafficking and Gun Violence With Graph Analytics and Visualization

Session Track: Graphs

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In this talk, you will learn how law enforcement agencies are making use of graph databases to identify suspicious patterns in buyers, possessors, and dealers of crime guns in the United States. Developed in partnership with the Illinois Attorney General's Office, the Crime Gun Connect platform is a first-of-its-kind application that combines entity resolution, red flag analysis, and geolocation with a Neo4j database and a GraphQL API. Crime Gun Connect helps law enforcement generate new leads in gun crime investigations by flagging highly connected entities and making graph traversal easy for non-technical users.

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Merry McCarron

Co-Founder and Head of Alternative Data Analytics, MK Analytics

Meredith (Merry) McCarron is a Co-Founder at MK Analytics, a 100% woman-owned, women-led data mining and analytics firm. Merry has nearly 10 years of experience providing creative analytics for government, non-profit, and litigation clients. Before her time in the private sector, Merry was a Data Scientist at the New York Attorney General's Office, where she received the Innovation in Law Enforcement Award for her work on gun trafficking investigation and policy.