Quantifying Justice News

[tjakester]

About the group (active tonight)

The Chicago Justice Project has had a project ongoing for five years where we are scraping Chicago media sites to capture crime, violence, and justice news. We want to capture this news, code it, quantify it, and compare to crime as it occurs in Chicago.

Group leaders

Tracy Siska, CJP
tsiska@chicagojustice.org
3126171560

Who we're looking for

We are looking to update our scrapers, using the 35,000 articles we have captured and coded to install natural language processing to automate the coding.

Tools

Unsure

Relevant Links

http://ec2-54-88-218-235.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Where we meet

In Gather.Town on the Giant Sea Turtle: https://gather.town/app/3JdykFv5twqLZMYQ/chn-library

[stevevance]

I want to know more about this project because I want to scrape news articles that discuss completely different topics.

Are the scrapers hosted on GitHub?

[tjakester]

Steve, Sorry this end up in my spam folder. Why don’t we talk about his at Hack Night next week? Tracy

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------------ Tracy Siska | Executive Director Chicago Justice Project | 220 N. Green St., Suite # 3059 | Chicago, IL 60607 Ph. (312) 971-6745 | tsiska@chicagojustice.org | www.chicagojustice.org | Twitter: CJPJustProj

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[aidenkent13]

Hey @tjakester this groups sounds super cool. Have you folks gotten feedback on your projects from users yet, or people who have benefitted from your project?

[tjakester]

@aidenkent13 No. we are pretty far away from working on the front end. We still have a lot of work to do on the natural language processing and the scrapers before we get there.

[npwinkler]

Notes from tonight, if anyone wants them - https://www.evernote.com/shard/s521/sh/3e362deb-2736-40dc-962e-709882d22b15/5b82ae8d3d70ed2600dfc8b757fdd2d9

[derekeder]

Following along from the Demo night tonight, here's some helpful links to share:

• Github repo: https://github.com/chicago-justice-project/article-tagging
• Archive of scraped and tagged articles: http://data.chicagojustice.org/articles/
• Background on Justice Media Project: https://chicagojustice.org/research/justice-media-project/
• Chi Hack Night presentation (video): https://chihacknight.org/events/2018/05/01/the-justice-media-project.html
• Chi Hack Night project page: https://chihacknight.org/projects/2018/05/01/justice-media-project.html

[derekeder]

this group hasn't met in a while. closing