sarahslo
commented
6 years ago wishing for more granular data. you have this topic which is so important, and i don't know what kind of human rights violations these companies are responding about, and if they respond what they are saying.
Pitch
How do companies react when pesky human rights activists call them out?
Summary
The Business and Human Rights Resource Center maintains a database of company responses (and lack thereof) to human rights abuse/harm allegations. The data includes columns on sector and type of harm.
The internet and social media sector has a tendency to claim they are saving the world. How do they compare with say, the mining sector in responding to allegations of malfeasance?
Details
Possible headline(s): Do tech bros care about human rights?
Data set(s): https://github.com/maxarvid/data-studio/tree/master/code/07_bhr
Code repository: https://github.com/maxarvid/data-studio/tree/master/code/07_bhr
Possible problems/fears/questions: Maybe a bit simplistic, dataset is fairly small, so error would be large if I intend to do any serious statistical analysis. I'll try to focus on sectors and companies that have more than 50 entries (i.e. have been called out 50 times).
Work so far
Data acquired, some initial EDA below.
Number of complaints per year, note a slight upward trend as Business and Human Rights becomes more and more mainstreamed.
Did the company respond? All industries:
Did the company respond? Telcos and Internet sectors:
Did the company respond? Mining:
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