[ddj] data-driven-journalism Digest - general notes on mailing lists

Gabrielle A. Wright gabriellea.wright at gmail.com
Wed Jun 26 23:44:11 UTC 2013


thank you!!!!!


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Peter Borbely <pborbely at fairfaxmedia.com.au
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> Hello there,
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> I am a relatively new subscriber and find the information on this list
> fantastic along with the tone of the community.
> I have, however noticed that most of us ignore a basic principle of any
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> **Editing subject lines on replies and digest mails to reflect the topic
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> Just looking at this very email I am replying to now and the number of
> topics interwoven into its body - good luck to us all to find the relevant
> info, especially in a week or month time when we come back and try to refer
> to a piece of info in it.
>
> I hope that my mail triggers no more and no less than a little additional
> attention to make this forum even more useful to all of us.
>
> Thanks and keep up the good work everyone!
> Peter
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, 26 June 2013, wrote:
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>>    1. Re: data-driven-journalism Digest, Vol 27, Issue 12
>>       (Mehmet Koksal)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:21:30 +0200
>> From: Mehmet Koksal <info at mehmet.be>
>> Subject: Re: [ddj] data-driven-journalism Digest, Vol 27, Issue 12
>> To: "List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism."
>>         <data-driven-journalism at lists.okfn.org>
>> Message-ID: <5BEC40C6-B04C-4EFB-84CA-5FD0E520F13C at mehmet.be>
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>> Dear Umut,
>>
>> "Citizen drones" have apparently been used recently in Istanbul to have
>> an overview of the crowds and the tactics used by Turkish police around
>> Taksim Square.
>>
>> See article from Slate's journalist Ryan Gallagher here :
>> http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/24/turkish_protests_police_reportedly_shoot_down_demonstrators_drone_video.html
>>
>> and in French here :
>> http://www.slate.fr/monde/74409/turquie-police-drone-video
>>
>> which covers the story of "Jenk" videos using some technics of "drone
>> journalism".
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> Mehmet Koksal
>> freelance journalist based in Brussels
>> info at mehmet.be
>>
>> Le 25 juin 2013 ? 17:02, Umut Hanio?lu a ?crit :
>>
>> > hi im from turkey. besides the point that mainstream media generally
>> ignored full coverage of protests here, there were no reports of drones
>> being used anywhere on social media twitter etc..
>> > can you verify drones were used in turkey?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Vin?cius 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 S?o 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 S?o 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
>> > --
>> > Vin?cius 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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