[ddj] Open data murder tracker in Trinidad and Tobago

Tue Apr 8 18:44:32 UTC 2014

Thanks Rosie, For some reason I hadn't though about it!

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Rosie Williams <budgetaus at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Have you thought about using Ushahidi?
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> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:09:39 -0400
> From: gerardbest at gmail.com
> To: data-driven-journalism at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: [ddj] Open data murder tracker in Trinidad and Tobago
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> INTRO
> I'm on a team working on a open data journalism project called Bullet
> Points and I'm hoping you can lend your collective experience/expertise to
> the project.
>
> Bullet Points tracks murders in Trinidad and Tobago. The murders are
> tracked on a Google doc here: http://tinyurl.com/bulletpoints2014
>
> The fatal incidents are listed chronologically and are numbered by victim
> (murder toll). The victims are announced on Twitter (
> twitter.com/bulletpoints_) by their toll number. This system has some
> serious limitations.
>
> PROBLEM
> Firstly, it is geared toward tracking the murder victims but is an
> inadequate way of tracking the actual killings themselves. For example,
> when there is a double murder, the toll goes up by two but the number of
> incidents goes up by only one.
>
> Secondly, killings do not always occur in the same chronological order
> that the victims' bodies are discovered. Sometimes bodies of murder victims
> are discovered after several days. When this happens, the relevant killing
> must be inserted somewhere in the middle of the existing chronological
> list, which obviously changes the toll count of all subsequent victims.
> Unfortunately, because our current system relies on the toll count to
> identify the victim, it has now run into this serious limitation.
>
> PROPOSED SOLUTION
> I think that what I need to do is add another column that contains a
> unique reference number for each incident. The unique reference number can
> follow a standard protocol such as [DATE][INTEGER]. For example, the most
> recent murder, which was discovered today, would have a reference number
> 2014013001. I think this will deal with the problem but I am not sure it
> is the best solution.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to read this. If you think you can help, I
> would be grateful for your perspective on this problem and proposed
> solution.
>
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> Gerard Best
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