[ddj] data-driven-journalism Digest, Vol 27, Issue 12

Sun Jun 23 16:14:05 UTC 2013

Are there any journalists in this group covering the Brazilian
manifestations and have stories/data visualization/statistics to share?

Thanks!

Mayara Fagundes
@BRmeansBusiness

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Clare Blumer <
clare.blumer at theglobalmail.org> wrote:

> Hi Rebecca,
>
> This data was gathered by some young reporters who went through a
> stringent Freedom of Information request process with the Department of
> Immigration and Citizenship (ministry of the Australian
> federal government). Because Serco was a major contractor with the
> government in this process they were obliged to comply with FOI requests.
>
> Being statistically blunt: the increase in incidents is due to an increase
> in population at the migrant detention centres. This means more boat people
> that arrived seeking asylum were incarcerated. Many have weighed into why
> this might be the case. I have kept trying to write an analysis for
> internationals to better understand but am left without words that are
> adequate. This situation is over-politicised and I can't even begin to
> answer the simple question you asked - a data question - without feeling it
> is impossible to describe. Are there more people because the world got
> shittier? Or did Australia just get shittier? Hmm.
>
> For Andrew's question:
>
> We have an in-house data team who are the brains, brawn and beauty behind
> this dataviz:
> BJ Rossiter
> Jamie Ferguson
> Mark Finger
>
>
> Best,
>
> Clare
>
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