The counted
- Logo
The Guardian created the first online database of police killings in the USA
- URL
- http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
- Keywords
- US, blacklivesmatter, accountability, police, killings, database, statistics, viz, journalism, The Guardian
- Project Current Phase
- Released
- Project Start Date
- 2015
- Launch Date
- 2015
- Most Recent Update
- Oct 15, 2015
- Update Frequency
- Yes
- Thematic Focus
- Justice
- Issue addressed
- Abuses of power
- Geographic Focus
- US
Experience
How does a user interact with and navigate the project?
- Narrative
- Yes
- Query
- Yes
- Geographic Map
- Yes
- Timelines
- Lists
- Yes
- Network Visualisation
- Other Visualisation
- Raw Data
- Yes
Description
Summary of the project and its approach
The Guardian is counting the people killed by US law enforcement agencies this year.
- Approach (How?)
- The Guardian reporters and analysts indexed the number of killings by the police and gathered statistical information such as race, state but also the names of the victimes, The Guardian is now building -- with the help of Internet users who can submit a tip-- the very first database of all the killings and indirect casualties committed by the police in the US.
- Language
- English
- Commissioner
- Self-commissionned
- Publisher
- The Guardian (UK)
- Partners
Impact
Indicators of reach and impact of the project
- Target Audience
- Online Audience Reached
- International
- Yes (13.4K followers)
- Publisher's Twitter Followers
- 4.37M
- Online Rank
- Google: N/A Alexa: OSE Domain Authority Rank: 96/100 Marketing Grader Rank: 87/100 ()
- Online Rank (Publisher)
- Google: 7 Alexa: 135
- News Source
- Very High
- Offline Audience Reached
- International
- Outcome
- Raising questions about the data collection done by the FBI, as it offers no category for recording killings by law enforcement officers of people who were not felons.
- Last updated
- 17/10/2015
- Attempts against the project
- N/A /
Technology
What tools and code were used to create the project?
- Tech Best Practices:
- Code Repository
- Tool
- Database
- Frontend
- Backend
- Data Format
- Data Standard
- Technical Documentation URL
- Technical Architecture Documentation
- Schema Documentation
- Design Documentation
- API Documentation
Data Sources
- Data Sources
Team
Team size and expertise
- Team Size
- Large
- Team Experience
- Research
- Dedicated
- Data Science
- Some
- Engineering
- Some
- Design
- Dedicated
Project Methodology
What strategies were in place for managing the project?
- Project Methodology
- Traditional
- Open Source
- No
- Open Data
- No
- Budget
- N/A
- Contracting
- N/A
- Risk Planning
- No planning
- Sustainability Planning
- Updated
Documented Practices
Documentation about project practices
: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/about-the-counted
- Collect / Collect Data
- http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/about-the-counted
Practices
How projects handle different aspects of data management
- Data Modeling
- Complex
- Ethical Collection
- No guidelines
- Ethical Storage
- N/A
- Data Collection
- Trained Collectors
- Data Collection
- Data Verification
- Corroborated
- Data Cleaning
- N/A
- Data Analysis
- Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking
- Data Description
- Basic
- Data Licensing
- Restricted
- Ethical Publishing
- Cited Sources
- Ethical Publishing
- Data Publishing Mode
- Dump