Learn about Statistics
Telling a Data Story
The Washington State Data Exchange for Public Safety offers more than standardizing and centralizing statewide police use-of-force data.
Our goal is to help all dashboard users—individuals, agency leaders, legislators, and researchers alike—expand their understanding of the data and derive meaningful insights.
- Learn how to identify trends and measure outcomes
- Compare agency performance across time
- Understand the significance of unique numbers in the data
- Compare and contrast agencies across the state
Tutorials
WADEPS is developing educational resources in collaboration with the WSU Center for Interdisciplinary Statistical Education and Research (CISER).
Whether you are a beginner with little or no experience with statistics or are skilled data-driven criminal justice researcher, CISER’s knowledgeable and approachable experts are available to answer your questions.
The statistical analysis team can also provide professional consultations on the WADEPS data and explain various data analysis techniques.
These services are supported by the legislative funding provided for WADEPS and are free to the public and law enforcement agencies.
Whether you are a beginner with little or no experience with statistics or are skilled data-driven criminal justice researcher, CISER’s knowledgeable and approachable experts are available to answer your questions.
The statistical analysis team can also provide professional consultations on the WADEPS data and explain various data analysis techniques.
These services are supported by the legislative funding provided for WADEPS and are free to the public and law enforcement agencies.
Our goal is to help all dashboard users—individuals, agency leaders, legislators, and researchers alike—expand their understanding of the data and derive meaningful insights.
Coming Soon!
CISER experts are developing text- and video-based tutorials for a wide range of dashboard users, from beginners to advanced.
Learn how to gain insights on incidents, force types, resistance types, officer or agency characteristics, and administrative follow-up.
Additionally, data scientists, criminal justice researchers, and other statistical professionals will be able to access open-source algorithms and machine-learning code developed by the WADEPS team. Resources will be posted on GitHub as they are available.
Learn how to gain insights on incidents, force types, resistance types, officer or agency characteristics, and administrative follow-up.
Additionally, data scientists, criminal justice researchers, and other statistical professionals will be able to access open-source algorithms and machine-learning code developed by the WADEPS team. Resources will be posted on GitHub as they are available.
More about CISER
CISER provides consultation and statistical analysis services to help researchers improve data-collection protocols and discover meaningful insights from research studies.
Working with WADEPS, “our goal is to provide efficient methods for finding patterns and analyzing time series data with multimodal inputs such as text, numerical, and more, using topological data analysis and other modern machine learning techniques. We also aim to develop mathematical guarantees for the quality of the insights found from the data, further enhancing our understanding of police-related data and providing tools for multiple stakeholders to derive meaningful insights.”
Working with WADEPS, “our goal is to provide efficient methods for finding patterns and analyzing time series data with multimodal inputs such as text, numerical, and more, using topological data analysis and other modern machine learning techniques. We also aim to develop mathematical guarantees for the quality of the insights found from the data, further enhancing our understanding of police-related data and providing tools for multiple stakeholders to derive meaningful insights.”