mimionuoha/missing-datasets

An overview and exploration of the concept of missing datasets.

missing-datasets's Issues

Officer-involved shootings

Hi - cool project! Looking forward to seeing it develop.

Regarding the first item on the list of missing datasets, I wanted to let you know that over the past year or two, several cities have released data that describes officer-involved shootings. The data usually indicates whether the shooting resulted in a fatality. In Philadelphia, our data release includes all shooting victims, whether or not an officer was involved, as well as a visualization (called a "Map Journal") that aims to contextualize the data alongside crime patterns (as much as it can at least).

Permission to set up similar installations

Hello,

First of all I would like to congratulate you on your work, I love the concept even if I was not able to visit the exhibition!

I am working with the Open Knowledge Foundation on projects related to data and local democracy: specifically, one project aims to explore how libraries could become launchpads for data-driven projects by citizens trying to better document the reality of their neighborhood and the issues afflecting it.

One of the first step of this kind of project is to identify issues being discussed during citizen councils or local political councils and identify which of these issues could benefit from a data-informed discussion.

This is where your project becomes relevant: it would be a fantastic asset to be able to present this "missing data" in a form similar to the one you used in order to :

1. Create curiosity around data starting from a familiar object (filing cabinet)
2. Encourage curiosity and get citizens to explore themselves the datasets
3. Get feedback right away about the datasets the community would be interested in collecting
4. Get librarians excited to work with us as an art project is always a more exciting starting point than a powerpoint presentation :)

I will be working in France and the UK on this kind of project and I would love to be able to set up installation to yours as part of those projects, were you to grant us permission to do so. Of course we would be happy to collaborate with you to stay faithful to the idea as well as mentioning clearly your work as the inspiration for ours.

Best,

Cédric Lombion