{"id":6424,"date":"2017-02-15T20:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2017-02-15T20:33:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:33:40","slug":"how-the-globe-collected-and-analyzed-sexual-assault-statistics-to-report-on-unfounded-figures-across-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6424","title":{"rendered":"How The Globe collected and analyzed sexual assault statistics to report on unfounded figures across Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/investigations\/unfounded-data-methodology-sexual-assault-claims\/article33891819\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/datamap.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Fourteen years ago, Statistics Canada stopped publishing unfounded rates, over concerns about the quality of the data. In &#8220;Unfounded,&#8221; The Globe and Mail has tried to fill the gaps in the data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Globe and Mail has been publishing a fabulous data-driven expose on how the police categorize one out of five sexual assault reports as unfounded. They have a web essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/investigations\/compare-unfounded-sex-assault-rates-across-canada\/article33855643\/\">Will police believe you?<\/a> that summarizes the investigation. There is another article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/investigations\/unfounded-sexual-assault-canada-data-methodology-claims\/article33891819\/\">How The Globe collected and analyzed sexual assault statistics to report on unfounded figures across Canada<\/a>. While this isn&#8217;t big data, it shows the power of data in showing us that there is a problem and prodding police departments to start reviewing their practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen years ago, Statistics Canada stopped publishing unfounded rates, over concerns about the quality of the data. In &#8220;Unfounded,&#8221; The Globe and Mail has tried to fill the gaps in the data. The Globe and Mail has been publishing a fabulous data-driven expose on how the police categorize one out of five sexual assault reports &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How The Globe collected and analyzed sexual assault statistics to report on unfounded figures across Canada<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6428,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}