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FiSH: fair spatial hot spots.

Deepak P¹, Sowmya S Sundaram²

¹Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

|November 23, 2022

Summary

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This study introduces fairness into spatial hot spot detection, a crucial task for policy interventions. A new method, FiSH, efficiently finds fair and diverse hot spots, balancing accuracy and equity.

Keywords:

Fairness in AI Hot spot detection Unsupervised learning

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Area of Science:

Computational social science
Spatial data analysis
Algorithmic fairness

Background:

Tracking devices and spatial data enable policy interventions like hot spot detection.
Existing methods for hot spot detection do not consider fairness, potentially leading to biased outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and address the novel problem of fairness in spatial hot spot detection.
To develop a method for identifying diverse sets of hot spots that balance noteworthiness and fairness.
To create evaluation metrics for assessing fair hot spot detection.

Main Methods:

Characterizing the noteworthiness-fairness trade-off spectrum for hot spot solutions.
Developing novel evaluation metrics for fair hot spots.
Proposing FiSH (Fair Spatial Hotspots), an efficient heuristic-based search method for identifying fair and diverse hot spots.

Main Results:

Naive approaches to fair hot spot detection are computationally infeasible.
FiSH efficiently identifies high-quality, fair, and diverse spatial hot spots.
Empirical analysis on a human development dataset demonstrates FiSH's effectiveness and speed.

Conclusions:

Fairness is a critical, previously unaddressed aspect of spatial hot spot detection.
FiSH provides an efficient and effective solution for generating fair and diverse hot spots.
The method has potential applications in policy interventions, including hot spots policing.