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Brian Richmond moved from a career in academics into one dedicated to exploring data science and statistics in various fields. An award-winning data scientist, Brian Richmond [link name to https://angel.co/brian-richmond-3] now works as a senior data scientist at Aura Health, a company that develops data-driven meditation and mindfulness applications to help people sleep well and feel great.
Even though the field of applied statistical analysis has been around for a long time, it gained public attention through events in baseball history that gave rise to the term Moneyball.
The approach of using statistics to improve management processes has since spread into many fields, including the justice system. Anne Milgram was appointed attorney general of New Jersey in 2007 and proceeded to roll out a Moneyball strategy of her own geared towards reducing crime.
Through the use of data and predictive analysis, she, along with law enforcement agencies across the state, was able to put into force better-policing practices that responded to actual stats rather than instincts and entrenched beliefs. The result was dramatic reductions in violent crimes in some of the most chronically criminal areas of cities in New Jersey.
