Datathon for the Transgender Day of Rememberance

The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), observed annually on 20 November, memorializes those who were killed or lost to suicide as a result of anti-transgender hatred or prejudice in the past year.

We are holding a non-competitive datathon centred on the data collected by monitoring bodies and trans activists about relevant deaths, as collated for recent years on https://tdor.translivesmatter.info/. This repository will be used to share ideas and potentially host code and other documents generated as part of the datathon.

The main event will be hosted by the Cardiff R User Group on Saturday 17 November, 10:30am to 4:30pm, where we will welcome the maintainer of tdor.translivesmatter.info as an invited participant, see further details on Meetup.

The datathon is supported by Forwards (https://forwards.github.io/) and Rainbow R (who are hosting this repository!). We welcome remote participants:

• watch this repo for updates
• reply to https://twitter.com/plzbeemyfriend/status/1060598224438939648 if you would like to meetup in Washington DC to work on this
• join the tdor-2018 channel in the RainbowR Slack group. You can join the group and collaborate with the global community by first completing RainbowR's Code of Conduct
• read the issues page of the event's GitHub repository to find ways to contribute
• contact @R_Forwards on Twitter if you would like to join a Skype call towards the end of the Cardiff datathon to discuss on-going tasks and how you might contribute - exact time TBD

For the story behind tdor.translivesmatter.info, see this Medium post.

For an intro the datathon, see these slides which will presented at the start of the Cardiff event to kick things off!