[ddj] data-driven-journalism Digest, Vol 31, Issue 2

Reid Williams t.reidwilliams at gmail.com
Tue Oct 1 13:47:07 UTC 2013 

Apologies, Nicolas, et. al. You should be able to access the article here:
http://on.lsj.com/14PKkmc

r.


On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:41 AM, <
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>    1. Re: Deer-vs-car crash data (Nicolas Kayser-Bril)
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> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:44:34 +0200
> From: Nicolas Kayser-Bril <hi at nkb.fr>
> Subject: Re: [ddj] Deer-vs-car crash data
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> This seems to be behind a paywall. Any chance there's an accessible
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> Best wishes,
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> Nicolas.
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> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Reid Williams <t.reidwilliams at gmail.com
> >wrote:
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> > If you happen to be driving in Michigan the next few months, you might
> > find this useful: http://goo.gl/3nBsor
> >
> > Even if you're not, feel free to provide feedback on the visualizations.
> > Thanks for taking a look.
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> > r.
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> > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 7:00 AM, <
> > data-driven-journalism-request at lists.okfn.org> wrote:
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> >>    1. Re: What are some great recent examples of DDJ? (Rosie Williams)
> >>    2. International Communication Summit in Brussels: Jung Chang,
> >>       Harper Reed, Mulgan and Z?mor debating on transparency and
> >>       institutional communication (Giovanni Cellini)
> >>    3. Re: Good deduping library in fortran? (Randall Wright)
> >>
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> >> Message: 1
> >> 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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> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I run BudgetAus which is the first implementation of the entire
> >> Australian federal budget into an online searchable database.
> >>
> >> http://infoaus.net/budget/budget_home.php
> >>
> >> I have recently added functionality to download the data sets as Excel
> >> files based on search results (though still checking for bugs).
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> An example of results generated from user's search input is
> >>
> http://infoaus.net/budget/2013-14/program_results.php?program=refugee&submit=Show
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> regards,
> >>
> >> Rosie Williams BA (Sociology)Founder & Developer InfoAus.net
> >> BudgetAus Home | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
> >>
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> networks of disposession! the details of the project is available on the
> >> website.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://mulksuzlestirme.org/index_en.html
> >>
> >> and here is also a critic in financial times about the biennal itself.
> >> thought some might be interested.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/841411a2-204a-11e3-9a9a-00144feab7de.html#axzz2fwTxHLZb
> >>
> >>
> >> enjoy!
> >>
> >> sinan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 26 September 2013 12:39, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Let's get this mailing list back on topic!
> >>
> >> 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
> >> of the world?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Tim McNamara
> >> @timClicks
> >>
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> >> Message: 2
> >> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:53:27 +0200
> >> 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
> >>         institutional communication
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> >> [image: Home]
> >>
> >> *For a picture of the event:*
> >>
> >> http://www.mediafire.com/?rr5flt0he9a0eb6
> >>
> >> *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.
> >>
> >> Info 0039 333 2146503
> >>
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> >> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:15:43 -0400
> >> 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
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> >
> >> > -- Patrick
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