[okfn-labs] Violence's portrait (retratodaviolencia.org)

Thu Aug 2 10:42:08 UTC 2012

On 2 August 2012 04:26, Vitor Baptista <vitor at vitorbaptista.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A couple friends and I participated in decoders-rs, an opendata competition
> sponsored by w3c and the government of Rio Grande do Sul (RS, a brazilian
> state) last week. We ended up winning the first place with our entry,
> Retrato da Violência: http://retratodaviolencia.org/.

This is *really* great!

> Our visualization was inspired by http://italia.yourtopia.net/ and
> http://www.ondeacontece.com.br/seguranca/RS. We've used only
> javascript/html, hosting on github pages.
>
> So far, there's only data about RS, but I've already asked the same data for
> other states. It would be interesting to add other countries as well. The
> code is in https://github.com/vitorbaptista/retrato-da-violencia.

Very nice! Do you have a format you need the data in? If we could get
stuff like this elsewhere we could do for other countries too!

(btw, i've just made sure you are an owner of this OKFN-Br org and
able to push to OKFN repos on github)

Rufus