Thursday, June 29, 2017

Matthew Desmond's Evicted Data



The data from Princeton University:
Eviction Lab
The Eviction Lab at Princeton University has built the first nationwide database of evictions. Find out how many evictions happen in your community. Create custom maps, charts, and reports. Share facts with your neighbors and elected officials.


Evicted Book website


Evicted Teacher's Guide


Matthew Desmond's excerpt in the New Yorker.

NY Times review from Barbara Ehrenreich.

Matthew Desmond on NPR's Here and Now.


Tuesday, June 20, 2017

From GapMinder, income and the relationship to life expectancy.




Find your country in the interactive chart here.

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Stats America from Indiana Business Research Center

http://www.statsamerica.org/radius/big.aspx

About StatsAmerica

The goal of StatsAmerica is to provide actionable data for economic developers to use in site requests, developing metrics, grant writing and strategic planning.
StatsAmerica is a service of the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, which is ranked among the nation's top business schools. With support from the Economic Development Administration, we have developed a unique and useful set of tools and reports, as well as providing access to other EDA-funded projects.
We obtain thousands of data items from hundreds of data sets from dozens of federal and state sources, along with some commercial or private source data.  While StatsAmerica adds value to these data through easy access and functionality, we acknowledge the direct agency source of the data on every table, profile or map.
And speaking of adding value, you will see it in the form of calculations, graphs, comparisons of time or geography, time series and maps.  To ensure total accuracy, all data are verified first by analyzing the source data (we frequently report back to the source agencies about problems spotted with their data) and the resulting calculations we generate. These data are updated as they are released and arrive from the sources.
Feel free to contact us with specific questions about the data that you may have that aren’t covered through resources on our site.

About the IBRC

The IBRC is part of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and has been monitoring socioeconomic trends as they relate to our home state, the Midwest and the nation since 1925. Its flagship publication, the Indiana Business Review, has been in continuous publication since 1926. The IBRC has won numerous national awards for its work, including Best Web Site and Best Publications from the Association for University Business and Economic Research. Nationally recognized for its founding of the State Data Center Program in the early 1970s, it has been a key participant and state partner in that program since its national inception in 1978. We are also part of the BEA User Group and other organizations that further the meaningful use of statistical data for economic and community development.

Saturday, June 17, 2017

Gendered Language and Reviews of College Professors

http://benschmidt.org/profGender/#

Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews

This interactive chart lets you explore the words used to describe male and female teachers in about 14 million reviews from RateMyProfessor.com.
You can enter any other word (or two-word phrase) into the box below to see how it is split across gender and discipline: the x-axis gives how many times your term is used per million words of text (normalized against gender and field). You can also limit to just negative or positive reviews (based on the numeric ratings on the site). For some more background, see here.
Not all words have gender splits, but a surprising number do. Even things like pronouns are used quite differently by gender.

Friday, June 16, 2017

CDC Data and Social Determintants of Health

https://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/data/index.htm

Data can be a catalyst for improving community health and well-being. Understanding data on social determinants of health, such as income, educational level, and employment, can help focus efforts to improve community health. The following tools are supported by CDC resources; some tools include references to data sources outside of CDC.

CDC 

Friday, June 2, 2017

Lab: Random School Shootings

After reading the Kimmel and Mahler qualitative study of school shootings, research shootings since then to look for the same things that they found.  Does their thesis still hold up?

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Lab: Media bias and coverage of criminal defendants.

From Victor Ray:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/us/austin-bombings-suspect.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur


Use the above article in classes as an example of racialized media bias and white privilege. Contrast with the Mike Brown “no angel” article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/us/michael-brown-spent-last-weeks-grappling-with-lifes-mysteries.html?ref=us

Students can look up coverage of other events and compare the language used in each. Students can code the stories for different types of coverage.


Nikolas Cruz killed 17, wounded 17, & then police calmly arrested him. Mark Anthony Conditt killed 2, injured 5, & then blew himself up before he could be arrested. Stephon Clark held a cellphone in his backyard, police thought he was holding a gun, & then shot him 20 times.