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New Estimate Of Killings By Police Is Way Higher — And Still Too Low

Carl Bialik of 538 Politics interviews HRDAG executive director Patrick Ball in an article about the recently released Bureau of Justice Statistics report about the number of annual police killings, both reported and unreported. As Bialik writes, this is a math puzzle with real consequences.


Civil War in Syria: The Internet as a Weapon of War

Suddeutsche Zeitung writer Hakan Tanriverdi interviews HRDAG affiliate Anita Gohdes and writes about her work on the Syrian casualty enumeration project for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. This article, “Bürgerkrieg in Syrien: Das Internet als Kriegswaffe,” is in German.


Recognising Uncertainty in Statistics

100x100-the-engine-roomIn Responsible Data Reflection Story #7—from the Responsible Data Forum—work by HRDAG affiliates Anita Gohdes and Brian Root is cited extensively to make the point about how quantitative data are the result of numerous subjective human decisions. An excerpt: “The Human Rights Data Analysis Group are pioneering the way in collecting and analysing figures of killings in conflict in a responsible way, using multiple systems estimation.”


Truth Commissioner

From the Guatemalan military to the South African apartheid police, code cruncher Patrick Ball singles out the perpetrators of political violence.


Death March

A mapped representation of the scale and spread of killings in Syria. HRDAG’s director of research, Megan Price, is quoted.


Data Mining on the Side of the Angels

“Data, by itself, isn’t truth.” How HRDAG uses data analysis and statistical methods to shed light on mass human rights abuses. Executive director Patrick Ball is quoted from his speech at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.


Guatemala Police Archive Yields Clues to ‘Dirty War’


Calculating Body Counts


60,000 Dead in Syria? Why the Death Toll is Likely Even Higher


Tech for Truth


Data Dive Reveals 15,000 New Victims of Syria War


Benetech Celebrates Milestone; Human Rights Data Analysis Group Transitioning into Independent Organization


In Syrian Conflict, Real-Time Evidence Of Violations


UN estimates Syria death toll more than 60,000


News Wrap: U.N. Reports 60,000 Dead in Syria Since Civil War Began Two Years Ago


Por qué los datos casan con la hipótesis de que hubo genocidio


Guatemala: Why We Cannot Turn Away


How statistics caught Indonesia’s war-criminals


The Body Counter


10MM Images from Guatemala’s National Police Go Online: Disappearances, STD Experiments, More


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