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

[Diana Assennato Botello]

it would be awesome to see some.




On 23 June 2013 13:14, Maya Plentz <mayaplentz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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