[ddj] Mapping illegal crops in the borderlands of Belarus, Poland and Ukraine

Thu Oct 2 09:05:05 UTC 2014

Hello

Just wanted to add that data from the police may have all sorts of hidden biases. Their data tells you about the crops they find and report. There may be many places where there are crops that the police don’t know about or don’t find. There may be other places where the police know about it but it doesn’t make it onto the official recording. And of course different countries might have biases in different regions and to different extents. So increased number of reports in a particular area doesn’t necessarily mean more crops being grown. It might be a crackdown by the police in that area.

I just mention this because I have been working with illegal ivory seizures and these have the same biases

So you may need to be careful about how you interpret the results. 

Hope that helps

Fiona

Dr Fiona M. Underwood
Independent Statistical Consultant

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From: data-driven-journalism [mailto:data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Stanislaw M.Stanuch
Sent: 01 October 2014 16:47
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Subject: Re: [ddj] Mapping illegal crops in the borderlands of Belarus, Poland and Ukraine

Alexey,

I just as polish Police for data, so stay tuned. 

As I know, it may take some time :-)

Best,

Staś

2014-10-01 10:23 GMT+02:00 alexey medvetsky <am at opendata.by <mailto:am at opendata.by> >:

Hi Stas,

Yes. If it's possible to get the machine-readable data from the police then this would be enough:
- Date,
- Name of the place (ideally geolocated),
- Type of crops,
- Size of the plantation

These are the fields I used to make the map. Otherwise simple text reports will probably do fine in case they are standardized.

Unfortunately I don't have the data for Ukraine. But as my data suggest, most Belarusian poppy crops are in the Grodno border region, so I am very curious to see the situation around Bialystok. 

Best,
Alexey.

Hi Alexy, 

What kind of data you look for? Place, type(cannabis or poppy crops), date? 

Maybe you can post what kind of data you have from Belarusian & Ukrainien Police, so I can ask for the same from Polish Police.

Staś Stanuch

2014-09-27 11:34 GMT+02:00 alexey medvetsky <am at opendata.by <mailto:am at opendata.by> >:

Hello list members,

I am wondering if there's anyone from Poland and Ukraine on this list who might help with the data on illegal cannabis and poppy crops.

Here is the data I collected from the Belarusian police for the last 4 years: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10574235/odata/samosad.html.

Red squares mean poppy crops, green is cannabis. The interesting thing is that poppy crops tend to be found (and destroyed) closer to the Western border of Belarus, i.e. closer to Poland.

Have you seen any data from the Polish police on that? Same question goes for the Southern border and to the Ukranian colleagues: is there any data available?

Thanks,
Alexey Medvetsky.
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