Alice Brennan, Fidel Martinez and Susan McGregor on dealing with data from the police, lawsuits and freedom of information requests in a way that respects privacy, with examples, at SXSW:
Transforming and linking public records from Miami Gardens reveals public harassment: over half the population had been stopped and frisked.
…Much of the story’s power comes from the concentration and location of stop-and-frisk incidents, but how could these be mapped responsibly?
…Though we wanted to make the set available and searchable as a service, the privacy concerns were too great, especially because we knew the data was falsified by police.
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