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

[Maya Plentz]

Thanks!


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Vinícius de Oliveira <
viniciusdeoliveira at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi, I'm Brazilian but I haven't noticed any use of data viz/statiscs that
> could be considered a good example of these tools.
>
> As well as in Turkey, we had (probably) for the first time the presence of
> drones in the Brazilian press. Last week, Folha de São Paulo used a drone
> to follow two or three different large groups of demonstrators. The result
> is here
>
>
> http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/multimidia/videocasts/2013/06/1298766-drone-registra-imagens-aereas-de-protesto-na-paulista-veja.shtml
>
> Last weekend, NYT translated the signs in Recife and São Paulo
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/21/world/americas/brazil-protest-signs.html?smid=fb-share
>
> If you guys need something for your newsroom, let me know
>
> Best regards
> --
> Vinícius de Oliveira
>
> On Thursday, 13 de June de 2013 at 14:45, Clare Blumer 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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