[ddj] Deer-vs-car crash data

Nicolas Kayser-Bril hi at nkb.fr
Tue Oct 1 09:44:34 UTC 2013 

This seems to be behind a paywall. Any chance there's an accessible version?

Best wishes,

Nicolas.


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Reid Williams <t.reidwilliams at gmail.com>wrote:

> If you happen to be driving in Michigan the next few months, you might
> find this useful: http://goo.gl/3nBsor
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> Even if you're not, feel free to provide feedback on the visualizations.
> Thanks for taking a look.
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>> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:14:50 +1030
>> From: Rosie Williams <budgetaus at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [ddj] What are some great recent examples of DDJ?
>> To: List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism.
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>> I run BudgetAus which is the first implementation of the entire
>> Australian federal budget into an online searchable database.
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>> http://infoaus.net/budget/budget_home.php
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>> I have recently added functionality to download the data sets as Excel
>> files based on search results (though still checking for bugs).
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>> If you scroll down on the page above you will see links to hard coded
>> queries which give results of programs in the budget by size as well as the
>> most significant changes between budget years.
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>> An example of results generated from user's search input is
>> http://infoaus.net/budget/2013-14/program_results.php?program=refugee&submit=Show
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>> Right now I'm in the process of improving the data and writing queries
>> which allow me to directly compare my figures (obtained from the Portfolio
>> Budget Statements) with the figures published by Treasury.
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>> I intend to add functionality to allow users to generate graphs on the
>> fly for their own purposes eg to embed in articles, reports, blogs etc. I
>> hope this will be useful in data journalism.
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>> regards,
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>> From: segemen at gmail.com
>> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:56:26 +0300
>> To: data-driven-journalism at lists.okfn.org
>> Subject: Re: [ddj] What are some great recent examples of DDJ?
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>> there is a network mapping work from a group of turkish new media and
>> software artists. it is also being exhibited in istanbul biennal '13.
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>> networks of disposession! the details of the project is available on the
>> website.
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>> http://mulksuzlestirme.org/index_en.html
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>> and here is also a critic in financial times about the biennal itself.
>> thought some might be interested.
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>> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/841411a2-204a-11e3-9a9a-00144feab7de.html#axzz2fwTxHLZb
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>> enjoy!
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>> sinan
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>> On 26 September 2013 12:39, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>
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>> Are there any interesting examples in the last few months of data driven
>> journalism that you've seen and think might be worth sharing with the rest
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>> From: Giovanni Cellini <giovannicellini at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [ddj] International Communication Summit in Brussels: Jung
>>         Chang, Harper Reed, Mulgan and Z?mor debating on transparency and
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>> *For a picture of the event:*
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>> http://www.mediafire.com/?rr5flt0he9a0eb6
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>> *International Communication Summit in Brussels: Jung Chang, Harper Reed,
>> Mulgan and Z?mor debating on transparency and institutional communication
>> *
>>
>> Can we create a dialogue between citizens and institutions? How does it
>> change the concept of ?citizen-consumer? in the informative cloud invading
>> our life? Are there ways to rebuild a relationship of trust between
>> politics and the people? The *International Communication Summit*, in its
>> first European edition, held in the city of Brussels, Biblioteque Solvay,
>> has succeeded in creating a debate on these issues, looking for
>> opportunities of reflection rather than definitive answers. The *ICS
>> Pomilio Blumm Summit*, created by the communication agency *Pomilio
>> Blumm*,
>> proposed new ideas on concepts such as the "citizen-consumer" and
>> "transparency", seen as the only chance to engage european citizens in
>> institutional communications, as pointed out by *Franco Pomilio*,
>> President
>> of Pomilio Blumm and ICS chairman. ?Transparency is just telling the
>> truth?, this was the simple and strong advice given by the  bestseller
>> writer *Jung Chang*, who explained to the audience how her books are full
>> of truth, of real life, and that?s why they fascinate so many people
>> around
>> the world (fifteen million copies for her last two books), because
>> "transparency is at the core of my writing, is its soul". *Harper Reed*,
>> web strategist of President Obama's re-election campaign, explained that
>> the president?s staff called him because they "wanted something different?
>> and that social media and web can give great ways to make powerful
>> communication such as ?the crowdsourcing, that engages the people in such
>> a
>> way they do the hard work? or ?the micro-targeting, which is really
>> exciting? . Harper Reed also pointed out that ?Facilitating community is
>> the power behind your brand? and that if you create on the web a ?good
>> neighborhood, people will join it?. One of the most authoritative thinkers
>> on social innovation and the sharing economy, former Head of Policy and
>> Director of the Strategy Unit for the Tony Blair government, *Geoff
>> Mulgan*,
>> explained how ?one of Europe?s greatest challenges is to grow public
>> understanding of the need to prioritize  future investment? in R&D,
>> innovation ? rather than current consumption.  Elsewhere in the world fear
>> has often galvanized that commitment ? we also now need to mobilize hope,
>> but above all direct public involvement in the process of creating the
>> future?.  One of the most authoritative voices of public communication,
>> *Pierre
>> Z?mor*, talked about the risks of public communication ? who could be some
>> times a sort of style exercise, becoming useless to face crisis, that?s
>> why
>> we need to find a true public communication, engaging real people, and
>> helping policy-makers?. *Stephen Clark*, responsible for communicating the
>> activities of the *European Parliament* to citizens  explained that ?as an
>> institutional service we will always need to explain the Parliament. It?s
>> a
>> complicated place? but in the long run, our job is more and more to open
>> it
>> up and put citizens in touch with politicians. We need to start the
>> conversation, and then get out of the way?. According to *Ronny Patz*, EU
>> Communications & Policy Officer in *Transparency International*'s Liaison
>> Office to the European Union, ?to gain trusts from the citizens all the
>> policy makers have to not just make good laws on transparency, but be up
>> to
>> speed with the technical and social reality?. Moderator of the event
>> was *Barbara
>> Roffi*, Head of sector Content Production and Audio Visual Unit European
>> Parliament.
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>> From: Randall Wright <rw26 at lrw.net>
>> Subject: Re: [ddj] Good deduping library in fortran?
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>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12147864/finding-duplicate-records-in-fortran
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>> On 09/25/2013 04:45 PM, Patrick Maynard wrote:
>> > Does anybody know of a good fortran library for flagging likely
>> > duplicates in a set? Given a sufficiently robust tool, we may also be
>> > able to do it in Scala or Haskell, if that helps.
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>> > -- Patrick
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