Week 2 Blog -

Howdy! This week I focused primarily on my internship. My research and work consisted of combing through a multitude of articles collected off of the web, regarding precedent human organ trafficking cases. I worked on manually extracting and distributing the information from the articles into certain categories. The categories consisted of: country of sellers, country of buyers, country of brokers, surgery country, amount paid by buyer, amount promised to seller, amount paid to seller, fee charged by broker, fee received by surgeon, and currency used. As I went through the process of identifying the information in the categories for each article I also compared the data I was extracting with the extraction that the machine learning AI had completed. Given that I had to go through a great number of articles manually this process took a considerable amount of time. Identifying the differences between my observations and those of the AI gives us an indication of how the algorithm needs to be adjusted for future use. I look forward to doing more research on my own project next week.