Category Archives: crime

Interesting perspectives from Web 2.0 Expo

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Matt McAlister

Today’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco provided some really good brain food. Clay Shirky’s keynote was excellent. He talked about architecting a new world for the “cognitive surplus” that’s emerging as people pull themselves out of the historical sitcom … Continue reading →

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Interactive journalism: An amazing homicide mashup

Posted on January 16, 2008 by

I had the pleasure of interviewing Sean Connelly and Katy Newton for YDN Theater recently with YDN videographer Ricky Montalvo. They created the amazing (and award-winning) crime data mashup Not Just A Number in partnership with The Oakland Tribune. After … Continue reading →

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Making government more useful through data

Posted on December 11, 2007 by

A very interesting working group formed recently to drive better transparency in government through data. The Open Government Data organization has a simple aim: “The group is offering a set of fundamental principles for open government data. By embracing the … Continue reading →

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Oakland Trib’s Not-Just-A-Number improves on crime data visualization

Posted on November 20, 2007 by

OJR’s Jim Wayne dives into Oakland Tribune’s “Not Just A Number” web site. The service won the Service Journalism Award from ONA for an amazingly powerful view of crime data. The basic premise was to create a data visualization for … Continue reading →

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Crime data stories

Posted on May 17, 2007 by

My Potrero Hill neighbors tell me that the sweet song of crackling firearms in the evening always begins again in May as the days get longer, hotter and schoolless. Recently, I witnessed a sample of the gun play happening in … Continue reading →

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