| dc.contributor.author | Bridgelall, Raj | |
| dc.description.abstract | To advance the agenda in counterterrorism, this work demonstrates how analysts can combine unsupervised machine learning, exploratory data analysis, and statistical tests to discover features associated with different terrorist motives. A new empirical text mining method created a “motive” field in the Global Terrorism Database to enable associative relationship mining among features that characterize terrorist events. The methodology incorporated K-means co-clustering, three methods of non-linear projection, and two spatial association tests to reveal statistically significant relationships between terrorist motives, tactics, and targets. Planners and investigators can replicate the approach to distill knowledge from big datasets to help advance the state of the art in counterterrorism. | en_US |
| dc.rights | In copyright. Permission to make this version available has been granted by the author and publisher. | |
| dc.title | Applying Unsupervised Machine Learning to Counterterrorism | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.type | Preprint | en_US |
| dc.description | Raj Bridgelall is the program director for the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) Center for Surface Mobility Applications & Real-time Simulation environments (SMARTSeSM). | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-03T21:10:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-03T21:10:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/32680 | |
| dc.subject | Data wrangling. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Local indicators of spatial association. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nonlinear projection. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Statistical learning. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Text mining. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-3743-6652 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bridgelall, Raj. "Applying Unsupervised Machine Learning to Counterterrorism." Journal of Computational Social Science, DOI:10.1007/s42001-022-00164-w, April 2022. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.ugpti.org/about/staff/viewbio.php?id=79 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| dc.contributor.organization | Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute | |
| ndsu.college | College of Business | |
| ndsu.department | Transportation and Logistics | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s42001-022-00164-w | |
