This edition of our Top 10 Data Journalism segment, which covers stories published between November 6 and 19, includes Netra News’ database of extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh over the past thirteen years, a data-driven investigation into road injuries in Kyrgyzstan, and a memo. For Philip Meyer, a pioneer and giant of data-driven journalism, who passed away this month. Also: How force corporations in Italy took advantage of COVID-19 lockdowns and an unofficial census of rat populations in New York City subway stations (they do). He doesn’t seem to like living near Rockaway Beach. )
According to Bangladeshi human rights researchers, the country’s security forces were implicated in the deaths of another 2,597 people between 2009 and 2022, which Netra News says is “almost certainly” an underestimate. in custody, Netra News has created a complicated knowledge base for those grim figures, which can be searched by name, location and the security company involved, such as police, army or anti-terrorist battalions. Insights and reports also identify geographic trends in killings and massive spikes in deaths in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019, similar to elections and opposition protests. (Although the government did not respond to this investigation, journalists noted that “the Bangladesh government has long denied that its security forces carry out extrajudicial killings. “)
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– Netra News (@NetraNews) November 14, 2023
The events in Israel and Gaza have provoked global reactions. Using knowledge of the site of armed conflict
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– Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa (@vijdankawoosa) November 14, 2023
Civio, a Spanish nonprofit, took an in-depth look at knowledge of Spanish budget execution (i. e. , how much cash ends up being spent, rather than simply budgeted at the approval level) from 2016 to 2022. Sometimes, there is a significant gap between what is appropriated and what is ultimately spent; in some spaces, such as healthcare, especially during the COVID-19 crisis, unforeseen prices are to be expected; however, the differences in other spaces are less significant. Civio has uncovered reliable trends: for example, defense spending is still far exceeding budgets and some science is still unused. Reporters also investigated some inexplicable oddities: Why are the Defense Department’s estimates of water charges for construction absolutely wrong?Learn more about the method here or check out Civio’s series on defense spending.
Understand what the public has more ? or less ? done about presupposition between 2016 and 2022?https://t. co/tIz9jyhIsk pic. twitter. com/pbnwCz3uq6
– Civio (@civio) November 10, 2023
In Kyrgyzstan, there are only about 20 road traffic injuries every day, according to the independent newspaper Kloop, based on data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which has recorded 67,000 road traffic injuries in the past decade. A third of those affected were pedestrians. Any improvement in those numbers tends to be short-lived, and preventive measures to promote increased driving — such as asking police officers to teach the rules of the road at mosques during Friday prayers — do not appear to have any discernible benefit. Peshcom, a Kyrgyz initiative promoting pedestrian protection and public transport, studied knowledge about road injuries in the capital, Bishkek; Kloop reporters then took a detailed look at 30 of the city’s most damaging intersections for pedestrians and motorists. Among the findings: the undeniable lack of traffic lights, as well as the width of the roads, are two of the key points that make an intersection harmful.
– Kloop (@kloopnews) November 8, 2023
“Exorbitant” childcare prices in England are among the highest among primary economies, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Beyond the cost, the demand is also immense: parents put their children on waiting lists in popular kindergartens “shortly after the moment of conception. “The UK government has promised to make childcare more affordable. That’s why a team from The Guardian created an interactive calculator for parents to determine their prices and identify how and when certain government policies help.
– Carmen Aguilar García (@C_AguilarGarcia) November 6, 2023
Electricity demand in Italy plummeted in March 2020, when the country shut down all non-essential industries at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. But instead of wasting in the face of falling demand, energy companies have found a solution. way to get huge bonuses. Bloomberg’s visual knowledge team shows how and through what mechanism this was possible: by promoting open-air electric power in the former Italian electric power market, in the so-called distribution market. They analyze costs broken down by day, as well as millions of Italian reports on electric power trade and electric power. During the national shutdown between March and June 2020, prices for electric utilities selling outdoors on the regular market were 625% higher than wholesale market prices.
– Alex Campbell (@alexcampbell) November 10, 2023
As part of a series of investigations into China’s global influence, the Washington Post tested the expansion of the country’s maritime industry over the past decade. Currently, the country has ports and terminals in approximately one hundred locations in more than 50 countries. Journalists mapped them and analyzed their expansion by comparing old satellite photographs with more recent satellite photographs. The location of those ports, which span every continent and are among the world’s most strategic waterways, has raised concerns about the progression of advertising shipping in China beyond the economic. interest and may simply have “major implications for the military. “
– Chiqui Esteban (@chiquiesteban) November 7, 2023
The New York Times also investigated China’s influence in the sea this week, with this article on the Spratly Islands, a hotly contested archipelago in the South China Sea. Even though the domain is more than 1,000 miles (about 1,600 kilometers) from mainland China and is subject to rival territorial claims from neighboring countries, Beijing maintains a strong presence there with a fleet of militarized fishing boats and coast guard vessels. The Times investigated insights into maritime traffic and analyzed satellite imagery in an attempt to understand China’s maritime campaign in the region.
– Collin Koh ???? (@CollinSLKoh) November 16, 2023
New York City has a rat challenge, and it has gotten worse since the coronavirus pandemic. Ivan Lokhov, a knowledge visualization developer at Datawrapper, discovered a body of knowledge about rat sightings in the New York City subway through a transit app. He crunched the numbers to see which subway stations are the most frequented places by rats. Spoiler alert: Station 191 on Line 1 at all costs!
To see which community rats they avoid entirely, read their full article on our blog: https://t. co/ussyEvXGEp
– Datawrapper (@Datawrapper) November 9, 2023
Who owns the land in the city of Warsaw, Poland, and how is it used?To find out, Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza took a closer look at the data. It found that more than 50 percent of the capital’s land is in the public domain, while 35 percent is privately owned. The journalists also looked at the ownership of construction and the spatial distribution of land use in the city.
– Dominik Uhlig (@dominikuhlig) November 16, 2023
Agência Lupa, a Brazil-based fact-checking and data verification platform, analyzed the laws of more than 190 countries to create an interactive map of legislation addressing the challenge of disdata data. Sources included government and foreign organizations, as well as cumulative data from other fact-checking organizations. Map users can delete by category, country, and topics. More information here.
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– Derek Thorne (@dfthorne1) November 20, 2023
Philip Meyer, a pioneer of computer-aided reporting, died at the age of 93 earlier this month. His contribution to the stage is perfectly summed up in those obituaries in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
– Tim Newburn (@TimNewburn) November 8, 2023
Alexa van Sickle is an associate editor at GIJN. In the past, she was editor of the foreign correspondence magazine Roads and Kingdoms. She was also an editor of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and an editor of a foreign law non-profit organization in London. It was founded in Vienna.
Eunice Au is the head of the GIJN global team founded in Budapest, Hungary. Previously, she was Malaysia correspondent for The Straits Times newspaper in Singapore and a journalist for The New Straits Times Malaysia. She has also written for The Sun, Malaysian Today and Madam President.
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