A presentation by Sarah Drummond of MyPolice on open data in the crime and justice sector and how design can help make data relevant and useful in people's lives.

1. Making a Difference
With Data
#madwd
Crime and Justice
- Sarah Drummond

6. +
(my )
police

14. we want to strike a balance
between qualitative and
quantitative feedback

16. “Crime mapping brings
accountability to the armchair for
everyone who wants to monitor
crime on their street.”

17. Where is it?
Don’t hide your data, be proud of it and share it

18. data.gov.uk
MOJ
homeoffice

19. gov websites

20. police sites

21. gov initiatives (police.uk)

22. providing APIs
(Application programing interface)

23. America/.eu sites
More like a market place

25. make it easier for us to
find your data and stats

26. How is it being used?
It’s not all crime maps

30. “Watching this in live time can show you the
relationship between topography and crime.
The lower you go, the higher the crime is”

31. “Essentially this data can tell
you where to buy drugs”

32. AT&T 12:34 PM
Where’s my Settings Where’s my drugs at?
drugs at?
Drug free zone
Where’s my dealers?
Watch out, cops about

33. Get home
safe App
“You can check the map for
streets to avoid”

35. data.gov.uk local paper

39. Accuracy
People take this stuff seriously

41. “We centre point mark, that’s
taking a crime to happen at the
midpoint between two junctions”

44. AT&T 12:34 PM AT&T 12:34 PM
Settings Bargain Bin Property
Bargain Bin Property
Burglary up by 30%.
House prices at all time low
Burglary up by 20%.
House prices falling. See more
£- £+
“I actually used the crime map to
choose the flat I would rent”

52. How do we get from
spreadsheet to chart?

53. We’re not all ‘stattos’ and
developers...

55. Who’s role is it anyway?
State versus public

56. 11-13 March 2011
48 HOURS TO DESIGN A NEW SERVICE

57. BBC+data.gov.uk
mashup

58. Jailbreak 2010
http://jailbrake.org/

59. Rewiredstate.org
Crime and justice day

60. Postcode lottery

62. visualising police
complaints

63. priorities and crime
rates in the same page

64. complaints comparison

65. make your data easy
to use

66. Doug Mccune,
revisualising SF

67. Guardian worked with
police.uk data

68. tweetbox
http://vimeo.
com/21013867

69. +
(my )
police

75. Justice and Home office data
published in PDF and Excel,
which was a little like trying to
make a soufflé using fried eggs
hidden under a pile of flat caps

76. So;
Keep it simple
Engage often and early
Address common fears
Make it easy for people

77. sarah@mypolice.org
http://mypolice.org