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Texas Justice Initiative #81

Closed awoog closed 5 years ago

awoog commented 8 years ago

What problem are we trying to solve?

Increase access to information on who died in police encounters and jail and prison custody in Texas.

Who will benefit (directly and indirectly) from this project?

General public, researchers, policymakers, journalists.

Links to any research/data available/articles

http://www.texasjusticeinitiative.org

What are the next steps (validation, research, coding, design)?

Website update and additional features.

What help is needed at this time?

Update data, add search feature, possibly add mapping.

laconc commented 8 years ago

The full dataset is currently hosted here at data.world.

We could use assistance in analyzing the data and coming up with some new conclusions.

dheerajchand commented 8 years ago

Interested.

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The full dataset is currently hosted here https://data.world/tji/tx-deaths-in-custody-2005-2015 at data.world.

We could use assistance in analyzing the data and coming up with some new conclusions.

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laconc commented 8 years ago

That's fantastic Dheeraj! Since your interest is in the data analysis, would you mind continuing the conversation on data.world? I would love to know what kind of pattern immediately jumps out at you.

kgarrett commented 8 years ago

I think another interesting component to this dataset is geographical and would be an excellent addition to the website. Include death_city as a filter? Could add Google Fusion map with death_address with longitude/latitude?

amaliebarras commented 8 years ago

Awesome! We actually have been discussing exactly this in Slack. Are you in that channel?

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dheerajchand commented 8 years ago

If you find the channel, please invite me to it. @dheerajchand is my ID.

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@amaliebarras https://github.com/amaliebarras Hmm... I was added to several channels today at the hackathon. Not sure about one for this specific project

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amaliebarras commented 7 years ago

what's the status on this project? @seandellis I think you and Selene were working on it as recently as November 8? I'm going to mark as "needs leadership" for now but feel free to reverse 😄

seandellis commented 7 years ago

I haven't heard back from the project champions since November when I had shared a map of their dataset with them.

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what's the status on this project? @seandellis https://github.com/seandellis I think you and Selene were working on it as recently as November 8?

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seandellis commented 7 years ago

@amaliebarras I reached out on 3/3/17, but still haven't heard back. Considering we haven't heard from them since November, I'd recommend archiving the project.

mistynodine commented 7 years ago

So, what is the status of this at this point? We are thinking of trying to clean up the data set a bit and republish the cleaned data to data.world. Is this data set the one to start from -- the one that has been cleaned the most? https://data.world/tji/tx-deaths-in-custody-2005-2015/file/Texas-Justice-Initiative-20161121.csv

seandellis commented 7 years ago

@mistynodine Yes, that's the latest file.

I was the last one to work on it by populating blank counties and adding latitude and longitude. I have the full edit history within OpenRefine if anyone wants to verify the edits.

I also created a Carto.db map for people to explore.

I think Open Austin's role on the project is finished and should be marked as such.

I don't think there's anything else that needs to be done on the data set. If anyone wants to analyze the data, it's ready for them to do so.

mscarey commented 5 years ago

our work here is done