Data representing crisis contacts made by officers of the Seattle Police Department. Data is denormalized to represent the one to many relationship between the record and the reported disposition of the contact.

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This is a corpus of mentions (posts, tweets, retweets, articles, comments to public articles, social media posts and comments, forum discussion comments) concerning three reputational crisis peaks in the Polish language. It also contains mention classification with respect to emotions, topics and communicative actions.

The HDX repository, where data providers can upload their raw data spreadsheets for others to find and use. HDX analytics, a database of high-value data that can be compared across countries and crises, with tools for analysis and visualisation. Standards to help share humanitarian data through the use of a consensus Humanitarian Exchange Language. We are designing the HDX system with the following principles in mind: HDX will aggregate data that already exists. We are not working on primary data collection or the creation of new indicators. HDX will provide technical support for (a) sharing any data, and (b) allowing data providers to decide not to share some data for privacy, security or ethical reasons. Read our Terms of Service. As selected high-value data moves from the dataset repository into the curated analytic database, we will take it through a quality-review process to ensure that it is sourced, trusted, and can be combined and compared with data from other sources. HDX will use open-source, open content, and open data as often as possible to reduce costs and in the spirit of transparency. We are using an open-source software called CKAN for the dataset repository. We partner with ScraperWiki for data transformation and operations support. You can find all of our code on GitHub. The plan for 2014 is to create a place where users can easily find humanitarian data and understand the data's source, collection methodology, and license for reuse. We will be working with three countries - Colombia, Kenya(for Eastern Africa) and Yemen - to introduce the platform to partners and to integrate local systems. Our initial public beta will allow users to find and share data through the HDX repository. We will continue to build on this foundation into 2015, eventually adding functionality for data visualization and custom analytics. The HDX project is ambitious, but it presents an excellent opportunity to change the way humanitarians share, access and use data, with positive implications for those who need assistance. We want to ensure that users are at the centre of our design process, so please join the conversation on our blog, follow us on twitter and send us feedback.

The project ‘Truth, Accountability or Impunity? Transitional Justice and the Economic Crisis’ completed a repository of policies of accountability in response to the post-2008 Great Recession in six European countries (Ireland, Iceland, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal & Spain). The repository included recorded prosecutions of bank executives, office holders and politicians on charges related to white collar crimes and/or corruption in the lead up to the economic crisis. It also includes fact finding commissions (i.e. independent commissions of inquiry and/or parliamentary commissions of inquiry) designed to document patterns of policy and institutional failures that led to the economic meltdown, in the period between 2010-2018. The rationale for developing the repository was, first, to map the range of policies deployed and, second, to investigate potential variations in the national policies. In parallel with the development of the repository, the project included the conduct of approximately 133 confidential semi-structured interviews in Ireland, Iceland, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, Washington D.C. (IMF) and Brussels (EU). These included interviews with prosecutors, judges, elected officials (e.g. former Prime Ministers, Ministers, MPs), unelected officials (e.g. policymakers at central banks, relevant ministries, EU bodies, senior IMF executives etc), NGO members, journalists, academics, defense lawyers and other informed stakeholders to understand the rationale and their attitudes towards policies of accountability. There is little emphasis in the extant literature on the role and impact of different mechanisms of accountability in post-crisis settings, so these interviews were expected to shed useful analytical light. Finally, with regards to the case selection six European countries with similar background conditions and exposure to the crisis but different policy responses, each representing a different approach to accountability.

The comparative project applies concepts of transitional justice, namely, 'dealing with the past', to investigate how six European societies (Spain, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Cyprus, Iceland) have come to terms with the origins and consequences of the post-2008 financial crisis. The economic aspects of the crash are well discussed elsewhere; the proposed project argues significant political and legal lessons can be learned from the crisis, but these are missed by viewing it only through an economic lens. Simply stated, transitional justice, a framework developed over the past forty years, considers how national political elites balance popular calls for truth and justice with the pragmatic need for stability in the aftermath of crisis. Prosecutions, truth recovery and amnesties or impunity are much studied mechanisms. Notably, these mechanisms have been deployed in the cases under consideration. Spain and Portugal took only minimal steps to address the causes of the crisis, in effect, pursuing a policy of immunity. Iceland and Cyprus set up ad hoc truth commissions to document the causes of the crisis. Ireland and Greece have prosecuted and convicted a number of bankers and politicians deemed responsible. The project seeks to explain why, despite similar background conditions, societies have formulated different policy responses and to identify the strengths and limitations of each response. This is important. Examining the comparative experience of societies who experiment with policy mechanisms will contribute to the design of better policy responses in times of crisis, decreasing the level of social upheaval, boosting political legitimacy and paving the way for meaningful institutional reform. This project is explicitly about the intersection of politics and law; it focuses on issues of political and institutional failure and the role of law in promoting accountability, responsibility and political learning from economic crises.

Real-time casualties and infrastructure damage data

This talk was delivered during the RDA 22nd Plenary on the Joint Meeting for RPRD IG and DR IG: Data Review in Data Repositories to Facilitate Open Science.

General characteristics of citizen-generated observations and scientist-generated observations datasets.

Most commonly observed MIVS species in citizen-generated and scientist-generated data sources per GBD region.

Thailand Probability of Fiscal Crisis data was reported at 0.055 NA in Aug 2018. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.055 NA for Jul 2018. Thailand Probability of Fiscal Crisis data is updated monthly, averaging 0.269 NA from Jan 1971 (Median) to Aug 2018, with 572 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.690 NA in Apr 2009 and a record low of 0.055 NA in Aug 2018. Thailand Probability of Fiscal Crisis data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Fiscal Policy Office. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Thailand – Table TH.F017: Government Finance: Fiscal Early Warning System.

Geographical distribution of citizen-generated and scientist-generated snake species observations.