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Evidence informed activism &
data-based deliberations
Tracey P. Lauriault
Dunlop Oriel House, Dublin 2, 7:30PM 4th March 2015
The Programmable City Project
NIRSA, NUIM
Shaping Dublin: A Seminar Series on the Contemporary City
By the Provisional University
http://www.dublindashboard.ie/pages/DublinEnvironment
Quantifying things provides information
http://www.epa.ie/air/quality/#.VPX7KCxi_nM
http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/imag
es/dan/quetelet-binomial.jpg
https://archive.org/stream/lathoriedelhom0
0halbuoft#page/n5/mode/2up
Counting and quantifying reveals what is normal
When things are known actions are taken
Homosexuals were deviants and
genetics demonstrated a biological predisposition
Poor air quality is associated w/traffic congestion,
transit and car pooling are remedial planning
actions
Obesity was considered a moral defect, biology
and the political economy have been shown as factors, it has become a social issue
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2015/515/b515d.pdf
Bureaucracy acts upon known things
http://www.refcom.ie/en/
http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1980-smoking/
http://www.ices.on.ca/flip-
publication/neighbourhood-
environment-and-
resources/index.html
Classification and counting is resisted
https://www.a
sthma.ie/news
/were-calling-
for-clean-air-
for-all http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-
style/people/being-plus-size-does-not-mean-you-re-
unhealthy-1.1834306
https://www.change.org/p/seventeen-magazine-
correct-their-bmi-calculator-s-definition-of-healthy-
range?utm_campaign=action_box&utm_mediu
m=twitter&utm_source=share_petition
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/focus-on-violent-crime-and-sexual-offences--2013-14/rpt-
chapter-2.html
Official Statistics
• The Home Office now records and publishes data on
homicide victims and the relationship of the victim to the
principal suspect and sex the of the victim.
• But it does not have the sex of the killer or connect
different forms of male violence against women. .
http://www.womensaid.org.uk/page.asp?section=00010001001400130010§ionTitle=Femicide+
Census#femcensus
Femicide Census
http://www.womensaid
.org.uk/domestic-
violence-
events.asp?itemid=335
1&itemTitle=Femicide
+Census%3A+Profile
s+of+Women+Killed
+by+Men§ion=0
00100010017§io
nTitle=Events+calend
ar
Why the Femicide Census?
• Provide a clearer picture of domestic homicides in the UK by age/ethnic origin/ relationship/ profession/region/outcome;
• Provide a clearer picture of men’s fatal violence against women that is not committed by a partner or ex-partner;
• Information to create advocacy tools to provide concrete data on domestic violence homicides;
• Provide data when NGOs working to end domestic violence against women is providing expert evidence on domestic homicides in civil cases or before the Coroners court;
• Provide comparisons and parallels between cases to identify where there is the potential for a systemic argument against the State for failing to protect the Right to Life; and
• Provide a resource for academics researching femicides
http://openknowledge.ie/about/#whoweare
http://openknowledge.ie/first-irish-charity-data-hackday/
Charity Hack Day
http://tcubedublin.com/
https://ti.to/
http://www.slideshare.net/AdrianOFlynn/solving-irish-charities-transparency-problem http://www.focusireland.ie/reports/2012/annual-report/accounts.html
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwvqlbZTmJr6TFQyYVVVYXB0eWc/edit
http://dochas.ie/publications/accounting-and-reporting-charities-statement-recommended-practice-charity-commission https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2014-publications/world-giving-index-2014.aspx
http://www.homelessdublin.ie/pass
http://www.dublincity.ie/official-street-count-figures-rough-sleeping-winter-2014-across-dublin-region
http://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2011reports/homelesspersonsinirelandaspecialcensus2011report/
Homelessness Data collection
http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/
http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/
Homelessness Data Dissemination
• Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) - Research and Data Advisory Committee (RDAC) • Housing Agency
• DRHE
• Public Health
• Focus Ireland
• School of Social work and Social Policy TCD
• Programmable City, NUIM
• School of Business, TCD
• HSE
Network of Decision makers • Homelessness Oversight
Committee
• National Homeless Consultative Committee
• Dublin Joint Homelessness Consultative Forum
• 2016 Census Advisory Committee
• Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
• Local Authorities/HSE
• Charitable organizations
• Housing and service providers
...more
Homelessness Data Actors
“https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Pilot+Atlas+of+the+Risk+of+Homelessness
Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness
Transit & Demographic Data
Eoin O’Mahony, Assistant Lecturer SPD/DCU & Omar Sarhan, GIS and data enthusiast https://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/privatizing-public-transport-from-the-periphery-to-the-centre/
Public Transit Conversation
Privatizing public transport from the periphery to the centre?
• Data Sources • Dublin Bus routes considered for privatisation - 23 Dublin Bus & 5 Bus Éireann routes
• CSO/AIRO maps at small area & electoral division to examine what public is served by public transport
• Data Sets:
• Population by social class – professional workers, skilled manual labour
• Private Car Ownership
• Deprivation Index
• Analysis • Core – periphery analysis of bus route privatization
• Examine demographics of ‘orbital’ areas served by proposed privatised bus routes
• Effects of frequency of service delivery to different populations
• Limitations • Absence of route-specific passenger load data
Eoin O’Mahony, Assistant Lecturer SPD/DCU & Omar Sarhan, GIS and data enthusiast https://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/privatizing-public-transport-from-the-periphery-to-the-centre/
http://www.npr.org/2015/02/10/384129985/advocates
-join-fight-to-eliminate-detroit-s-rape-kit-backlog
http://www.endthebacklog.org/about-us/about-endthebacklog
Rape Kits Campaigns
http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/
Co-Production of knowledge with and/or for
community based groups, charitable
organizations & issue driven activists
1. Scholar activists commit to channel their
resources and privileges afforded academics
2. Resourcing in the form of research design
3. Research that explores the barriers to
sustained and active participation in
activism
Scholar-Activist Research
Kate Driscoll Dericksona & Paul Routledgeb (2014) Resourcing Scholar-Activism:
Collaboration, Transformation, and the Production of Knowledge. The Professional Geographer
67(1), DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2014.883958
Kitchin’s Data Assemblage
Attributes Elements Systems of
thought
Modes of thinking, philosophies, theories, models,
ideologies, rationalities, etc.
Forms of
knowledge
Research texts, manuals, magazines, websites,
experience, word of mouth, chat forums, etc.
Finance Business models, investment, venture capital,
grants, philanthropy, profit, etc.
Political
economy
Policy, tax regimes, public and political opinion,
ethical considerations, etc.
Govern-
mentalities /
Legalities
Data standards, file formats, system requirements,
protocols, regulations, laws, licensing, intellectual
property regimes, etc.
Materialities &
infrastructures
Paper/pens, computers, digital devices, sensors,
scanners, databases, networks, servers, etc.
Practices Techniques, ways of doing, learned behaviours,
scientific conventions, etc.
Organisations
& institutions
Archives, corporations, consultants, manufacturers,
retailers, government agencies, universities,
conferences, clubs and societies, committees and
boards, communities of practice, etc.
Subjectivities
& communities
Of data producers, curators, managers, analysts,
scientists, politicians, users, citizens, etc.
Places Labs, offices, field sites, data centres, server farms,
business parks, etc, and their agglomerations
Marketplace
For data, its derivatives (e.g., text, tables, graphs,
maps), analysts, analytic software, interpretations,
etc.
S
yst
em
s of
thought
Q & A
Tracey P. Lauriault
@TraceyLauriault
http://www.nuim.ie/progcity/
Thank You!