[ddj] Deer-vs-car crash data

Mon Sep 30 13:02:07 UTC 2013

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.

r.

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On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 7:00 AM, <
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>    2. International Communication Summit in Brussels: Jung Chang,
>       Harper Reed, Mulgan and Z?mor debating on transparency and
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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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> Hi
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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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> Rosie Williams BA (Sociology)Founder & Developer InfoAus.net
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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>
> wrote:
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> Let's get this mailing list back on topic!
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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
> of the world?
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> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:53:27 +0200
> From: Giovanni Cellini <giovannicellini at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ddj] International Communication Summit in Brussels: Jung
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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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