Static Web Site

[anitsh]

Hi there. This is a good initiative :)

I am a software developer. So would like to offer/volunteer to help, if that is needed.

We can make a static web site using JAMStack like Gatsby/Hugo or others and host it on Github.io or Netlify or other.

And later, also for easier content creation some sort of frameworks could be used.

Let me know. Thanks.

[mnlmaier]

Maybe we can create something, I'm happy to help aswell (see #133)

[maxspencer]

@ubershmekel has created a static website based on the contents of this repo at https://2020policebrutality.netlify.app/

[anitsh]

@maxspencer Cool! Could we add the link on the repo? It was not clear that some kind of app exists. Also recommend to bring the repo for the code base to this organization account name :) It will be easier for many other to know and contribute. The domain 2020PoliceBrutality.com redirects to netlify app. This is weired. lol. Should be other way around. It's a good, useful initiative for record keeping. And I would love to help in case. Cheers,

[maxspencer]

@codeanit I think there is a link in the README, but do open a PR to add one or make it clearer!

Those sound like they might be good suggestions, but I am not an expert on the website at all, @ubershmekel will be the best person to advise and I expect they will have notifications from this thread.

[ubershmekel]

Hi folks. I think we have more to do on the web front.

• We can make more embeds work on https://github.com/ubershmekel/2020PoliceBrutality like youtube.
• I would like to make another site or page with all the events mentioned at the same time. This would require implementing a github action that will generate a single file from this dataset. I've started the work here: https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/pull/110 but would love to hear more ideas.
• In general - we could make many more sites that take many more spins on this data, such as charts, etc. Don't feel limited by what I made, you can make new stuff, or collaborate on existing. Be empowered.

[vijaypemmaraju]

Hi, I’m a software engineer, and I’d love to contribute to this. I’m particularly interested in doing some data visualization, maybe in the form of heatmaps or time series? Let me know what you guys think.

[ubershmekel]

I forgot to update this thread. The structured data endpoints are live at https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/tree/data_build

@vijaypemmaraju please do build something! We'd like to promote anything folks build with this data at least at https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality/wiki#sites-and-apps-built-with-the-dataset and more places.

I think it would be great to have a statistics dashboard for this dataset.

[vijaypemmaraju]

Awesome, I'll start putting something together

[SoumikPalFB]

Have created a quick GDS front end here: https://datastudio.google.com/s/oFSSsjw2kAY

Happy to add anyone as an editor if desirable, or make changes/updates.

[ubershmekel]

Thank you. This is awesome @SoumikPalFB and I've posted it to data is beautiful at - https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/gxf8s2/police_brutality_2020_visual_dashboard/

[vijaypemmaraju]

https://vijaypemmaraju.github.io/police-brutality-data-visualizations/

Put together a couple charts here based on date and location.

[Forkk]

Hi all, I've been working on an alternate website to the current 2020policebrutality.netlify.app one. You can find it here, and the git repo is here.

I think the user experience on this is a good improvement over the current website. The big list of every incident on the home page gives a good impression of how prevalent these police brutality incidents truly are. Plus, each incident has its own separate page with easy next/previous buttons.

Instead of rendering the page with JavaScript, all the rendering done ahead of time using Jekyll, which improves page load times a bit.

In the coming week, I plan to add separate pages per state, so that people can still browse on a per-state basis like on the current website. It would also be nice to incorporate the data visualizations that people are making (and maybe some of my own) into the website itself, so I'll probably be looking into that as well.

Let me know what y'all think.

[andrewsuzuki]

I also made a front end / site, check it out.

:link: Live site: https://policebrutality.netlify.app :wrench: Repo: andrewsuzuki/police-brutality-site

Features:

• Page for each incident (using the recently-supplied ids as slugs!)
• Page for each city (+ Quick jump on home page)
• Page for each state (+ Quick jump on home page)
• Built with Gatsby (Pretty fast)
• Decent mobile responsiveness
• Tabs for each source on an incident (to reduce vertical space)
• Embeds:
  • Twitter
  • Reddit
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
  • ...more...

Todo:

• Incident descriptions (when available in json)
• Tags (when available)
• Call to action

[dostran4]

Closing this, since these links are in the Readme / Frontend websites gallery.