MADWD - Crime and Justice, Sarah Drummond
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Making a Difference With Data #madwd Crime and Justice - Sarah Drummond
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Making a Difference With Data#madwd
Crime and Justice- Sarah Drummond
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we want to strike a balance between qualitative and quantitative feedback
“Crime mapping brings accountability to the armchair for everyone who wants to monitor crime on their street.”
Where is it?
Don’t hide your data, be proud of it and share it
data.gov.uk
homeoffice
MOJ
gov websites
police sites
gov initiatives (police.uk)
providing APIs(Application programing interface)
America/.eu sitesMore like a market place
make it easier for us to find your data and stats
How is it being used?
It’s not all crime maps
“Watching this in live time can show you the relationship between topography and crime. The lower you go, the higher the crime is”
“Essentially this data can tell you where to buy drugs”
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Drug free zone
Watch out, cops about
Where’s my dealers?
Where’s my drugs at?SettingsWhere’s my drugs at?
Get home safe App
“You can check the map for streets to avoid”
data.gov.uk local paper
Accuracy
People take this stuff seriously
“We centre point mark, that’s taking a crime to happen at the midpoint between two junctions”
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Bargain Bin PropertySettings
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Burglary up by 20%. House prices falling. See more
Burglary up by 30%.House prices at all time low
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Bargain Bin Property
“I actually used the crime map to choose the flat I would rent”
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Burglary up by 20%. House prices falling. See more
Burglary up by 30%.House prices at all time low
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Bargain Bin Property
How do we get from spreadsheet to chart?
We’re not all ‘stattos’ and developers...
Who’s role is it anyway?
State versus public
11-13 March 201148 HOURS TO DESIGN A NEW SERVICE
BBC+data.gov.ukmashup
Jailbreak 2010http://jailbrake.org/
Rewiredstate.orgCrime and justice day
Postcode lottery
visualising police complaints
priorities and crime rates in the same page
complaints comparison
make your data easy to use
Doug Mccune, revisualising SF
Guardian worked with police.uk data
http://vimeo.com/21013867
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Justice and Home office data published in PDF and Excel, which was a little like trying to make a soufflé using fried eggs hidden under a pile of flat caps
So;Keep it simpleEngage often and earlyAddress common fearsMake it easy for people
