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  POI Homicide Database Project

SCHEDULE 

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12 PM - 1 PM
PANEL DISCUSSION (& pizza!)
Panel Members: LA Times' Homicide Reporters, Stop LAPD Spying & USC's Innovation Lab

1 - 1:10 PM
PRESENTATION—Project Explanation and Session Explanation

1:10 - 5 PM
PARALLEL SESSIONS—feel free to stick with the same session the whole time or move between sessions to your preferences
Databases data mining and comparison team
Investigated and interpreted data sets, find discrepancies and figure out why these discrepancies exist.

Social media mining team + Twitter Bot      
Looked for specific names, dates, places and other details on specific cases in order to better understand the                        circumstances that led to inconsistencies in the data.

Made storify specific names found in the Youth Justice Coalition and LA Times, and killedbypolice.net    
                
Made a Twitter Bot  
   
Stop LAPD Spying Discussion

Discussed with community members reforms in policing that allow more intrusive surveillance and speculative policing.

Visualizations team
Created visualizations on police brutality.

5 - 6 PM
SHARED PROJECTS—informally presented what we did and talked about what we learned

         





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