Data Is Plural – Structured Archive

police-related data does your city publish?The Police Open Data Census, created by Code for America fellows in Indianapolis, is tracking “currently available open datasets about police interactions with citizens in the US,” including officer-involved shootings, use of force, and citizen complaints. [h/t Tom Johnson, who emailed Data Is Plural to praise how Albuquerque is sharing its data: “I have not found any other city in the world doing so in such billion pages of books (and booklike things). For each of its 1.8 billion pages, the dataset includes word frequencies, languages used, and sentence counts, among other Prussian horses.For his 1898 book, The Law of Small Numbers, statistician Ladislaus Bortkiewicz tabulated the number of Prussian cavalrymen killed by horse kicks each year between 1875 and 1894.

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