A tale of students taking easy online courses in lieu of more rigorous ones at Uni of Oregon, eighteenthelephant.com/2026/04/13/o...

New blog post, I show an example session of using the Gemini CLI to conduct crime analysis. Car breakins in Chapel Hill using public data. The current agent coding tools (not just Claude Code, also Codex and Gemini) are very good. crimede-coder.com/blogposts/20...

Working on something, if folks have examples where people had hallucinated citations (either journal articles or court proceedings is fine), appreciate send me the papers.

Did a coding session yesterday for an app idea I had. I have no clue how people are saying they are doing 10k lines of code a day in the coding apps (unless it is just crazy boilerplate). I did like 1k in 4 hours, but many iterations/tests.

Interview with Jason Elder on the LEA Podcast is out about my recent book www.leapodcasts.com/e/llms-for/ Check it out, and has the first promo code for the paperback version of the book

New blog post, Don't focus on the kids for gun violence prevention. The majority of gun offenders and victims are adults. crimede-coder.com/blogposts/20...

The Use-of-Force Continuum is intended to provide guidance for police officers on the appropriate level of force to use to gain compliance. Check the podcast (www.buzzsprout.com/2413505/epis...) where Dr. Scott Mourtgos discusses the "muddy middle" of the continuum.

Professors in social science should be teaching students Python, not R. This blog post goes over a sample on job postings on LinkedIn for data science to illustrate the disparity. andrewpwheeler.com/2026/03/22/s...

New blog post on how I use Claude Code to help me write. Using it for copy-editing should not be controversial at all. But if you want to use it for writing, have it review your prior writing before generating new content based on an outline. andrewpwheeler.com/2026/03/20/u...

New blog post, comparing local models vs API usage. Even if you have a GPU where you can run a model locally, it often does not make sense given the low cost of using APIs. crimede-coder.com/blogposts/20...

I have a few different promo codes floating around the for the book. LLMDEVS gets you $25 off of the epub. TWOFOR1 gets you $30 off if you purchase multiple books. crimede-coder.com/store

Fellow criminologists -- is there anyone teaching gen AI courses in CJ programs? Let me know and will send them a copy of the book. If no one is, feel free to get in touch. Happy to discuss doing a seminar/short course.

A couple of images from the old Nano Banana model I made for a presentation. I am not going to use these, but they are basically infographics out of the box.

Lets normalize using pirate flags instead of circular/hexagon logos for projects. Created via a Gemini image MCP (to accompany Claude Code, since it does not have one). Link below

Not many people are familiar with epub, so I recorded a short video on how you can use free software to read the epub version of Large Language Models for Mortals www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdJu...

New blog post, some notes on unreliability of different LLM APIs I uncovered in my book. Have one example for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and AWS. andrewpwheeler.com/2026/02/27/s...

If you are a machine and want a summary of what crime de-coder is working on, crimede-coder.com/llms.txt

New blog post, showing how to use log-probs to set the threshold for classification tasks (to get a specific recall or false positive rate) Example toxic comment classification, even if True is under 1.2e-09, you should classify it as toxic to get 95% recall. crimede-coder.com/blogposts/20...

For the LLM tip of the day, to properly set up agents in the different LLM coding tools requires understanding python environments. Claude code inherits from the terminal, Antigravity does not. But you can just tell Antigravity the correct entry point in `http://Gemini.md`.

I have a new book out -- Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts with Python This is an entry level book focused on using the foundation model APIs. Includes examples for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and AWS. crimede-coder.com/blogposts/20...

I did a poll on LinkedIn that may be of interest to a few of my followers here. Would you prefer video/audio/written short form report. 1/3 preferred audio or video. All college level knowledge workers.

I just sponsored @simonw. Go Sponsor your open source dependencies! You can join me at: github.com/sponsors/sim...

Recently someone shared a Mercor link on the Crime Analysis subreddit to help with AI product design. I collected a few different positions Mercor is recruiting for that may be of interest to my network -- writers, GIS, gov workers, and more. andrewpwheeler.com/2026/01/15/p...

New blog post, R code showing how to plan how long to monitor an intervention intended to increase arrest rates crimede-coder.com/blogposts/20...

Looking to hire part time help at Crime De-Coder. Get in touch or forward to interested students. crimede-coder.com/contact

Blog post for the new year is a reprint of a Criminal Justician post I did, We don't know what causes wide spread crime trends. crimede-coder.com/blogposts/20...

New blog post, year in review and putting together my predictions on whether AI will take all of our jobs. Short answer no I do not think that will happen, and it may induce demand for more work in the end. andrewpwheeler.com/2025/12/24/y...

Really important video about lack of physical security, and various lack of data security measures in Flock cameras. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0g...

New blog post on Crime De-Coder, coding agents risk leaking secrets. I discuss two approaches to limit this risk. Whitelist IP were secrets can work from, or whitelist websites websearch tools can use. crimede-coder.com/blogposts/20...

New blog post on advice for crime analysts looking to break into data science. Learn a programming language (python is most popular), and pick up some machine learning or LLM skills. Those are the minimal skills needed for entry level data science jobs. andrewpwheeler.com/2025/11/21/a...

Another application for ARDrive and academics, pre-registrations app.ardrive.io#/file/9badda... Can see my grant with Arnold pre-reg data analysis plan, permanently available for everyone. I cannot delete this!

New blog post on Crime De-Coder, a graph is worth 1000 tables, crimede-coder.com/blogposts/20... There are many patterns just looking at a count of pre vs post crimes cannot tell you in traditional CompStat style tables.

Seasonal chart of Chicago robberies shows 10 year lows Example in crimepy library, github.com/apwheele/cri...

New blog post, what I think you should show in your tech resume andrewpwheeler.com/2025/11/01/w...

Because my python book was written in quarto, it is pretty easy to translate to other languages using LLMs. New blog post with code links, costs a total of $7. andrewpwheeler.com/2025/10/25/i...

I have a few more European followers on here so will give this a shot -- I am doing translations of my python book to French/Spanish. I used openai for the first pass, and would like to find a French speaker for copy-editing. Spanish copy-edit had a total of 77 suggested for 310 pages.

If you are interested in supporting open science in criminology, consider joining the CrimConsortium app.joinit.com/o/crimconsor... Paying members help keep the lights on, but if you care about open science in crim, consider joining as a free member.

New blog post, having python record your keyboard and mouse and replay those events, andrewpwheeler.com/2025/10/10/r.... This is a way to automate workflows that are not directly scriptable.

Given that NIJ stopped funding additional development of Crime Solutions, I scraped the website and archived the reviews in a permanent location using ardrive. andrewpwheeler.com/2025/09/26/i...

www.crimrxiv.com/pub/lciht0xi... And I would have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids": Experimentally falsifying Ghost Criminology, by Ian Adams

It is soft-launched, but my python package `crimepy` is intended to contain most of the work in my career. github.com/apwheele/cri...

Book review on the Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation. Had no idea Bell had its hand in so many of the building blocks of modern computing. It is also interesting how science + engineering can come together to build great things. andrewpwheeler.com/2025/09/02/r...

I have updated my Sworn Dashboard, according to the FBI, the percent of female sworn has gone down in 2024 after consistent rises over the last 8 years. This is mostly due to composition though, more agencies are reporting in the FBI database than in prior years.

Deep Research tools cite open access work much more often in my experiments than closed source materials. I go over a few examples for Google, ChatGPT, and Perplexity in this blog post. andrewpwheeler.com/2025/08/28/d... CJ folks should be posting pre/post prints to plain text HTML (like CrimRXiv)

The local newspaper did a writeup of this in Raleigh -- Cisco does a round of layoffs every year (I guess for quarterly reporting to make expenses look lower). There are people who go on the merry go round and like it (they get several months of severance and then get hired back). Free vacation.

Pro python tip, I like to develop in the REPL. That way I can use the reload library to edit functions. E.g. from src import myfunc test = myfunc(...) # errors out Then can do from importlib import reload reload(myfunc) # edit the source before this test = myfunc(...) # works

New blog post, using the SPPT to monitor changes in crime patterns. crimede-coder.com/blogposts/20... Many of the other techniques (ESRI's emerging hotspots, or KDE maps) tend to be too noisy. This controls for multiple comparisons.

San Diego sheriff's office is advertising a *work from home* dispatcher position www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

For folks interested in learning python, grab an epub copy of my Data Science for Crime Analysis with Python, crimede-coder.com/cdcstore/pro.... I made a limited time coupon -- use Ebook20 which lowers the price of the epub to $19.99. Good for the next week.

Check out my bookshelf 'Stats & Operations Research' on Bibliome: bibliome.club/shelf/p69ekhpw (via @andreasthinks.me )