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Open Data Portal for Champaign Racial and Criminal Justice: Towards Greater Transparency in Policy Making
No full textThis project focuses on the application of civic technology to urban planning practice in racial justice. It explores the capability of computer technology to improve the accessibility of civic data and to bring greater transparency to public decision-making. Working in collaboration with Champaign County Racial Justice Task Force, the author developed a website and its behind database to support the visualization of publicly available information on arrests, correctional facility records and court cases in Urbana-Champaign. The website and database has received positive feedback from the Task Force as it collects and centralizes data scattered in Champaign criminal justice system and responds to data needs brought forward by civil society and local government regarding law enforcement. With this tool, communities, interested social groups and individuals will have easier access to legal data and be better informed of possible racial disparities in the criminal justice system.Ope
Open Data Portal for Champaign Racial and Criminal Justice: Towards Greater Transparency in Policy Making
Get PDFThis project focuses on the application of civic technology to urban planning practice in racial justice. It explores the capability of computer technology to improve the accessibility of civic data and to bring greater transparency to public decision-making. Working in collaboration with Champaign County Racial Justice Task Force, the author developed a website and its behind database to support the visualization of publicly available information on arrests, correctional facility records and court cases in Urbana-Champaign. The website and database has received positive feedback from the Task Force as it collects and centralizes data scattered in Champaign criminal justice system and responds to data needs brought forward by civil society and local government regarding law enforcement. With this tool, communities, interested social groups and individuals will have easier access to legal data and be better informed of possible racial disparities in the criminal justice system.Open Restriction set for Item 104052 on 2017-11-09T17:16:58Z with date null by [email protected] by Jennifer Kowalski ([email protected]) on 2017-11-09T17:38:16Z
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Previous issue date: 2017Ope
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
A Win-Lose Situation: Exploring the Impacts of Floodplain Buyouts on Participants in Illinois
Get PDFBuyout programs in floodplains is an increasingly popular strategy for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) but there are several factors that complicate this widely used hazard mitigation strategy that have yet to be explored. The central research question of this capstone is How are floodplain buyout participants affected by the floodplain buyout programs?Open Restriction set for Item 113158 on 2019-12-10T22:18:03Z with date null by [email protected] by Jennifer Kowalski ([email protected]) on 2019-12-10T22:23:50Z
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Previous issue date: 2019Ope
Watts Beyond Water: Sustainable Water Infrastructure Plan
Get PDFEnergy and water are two critical resources that are highly interrelated. For example, deliver of clean drinking water and adequate sanitation of wastewater depend on reliable energy supplies. The overlap between energy and water resources and their direct relationship with public policy means that collaboration between engineers and policymakers regarding resource management and use is critically important. The village of Mahomet has been providing a good, reliable, and safe water systems to its citizens for well over seventy years but is facing substantial growth in the near future which will stress the capabilities and performance of both the existing water and energy system. In order to identify capital improvements needed to strengthen the energy efficiency of the existing water system and support future developments, a Sustainable Water Infrastructure Plan has been developed. In this study, an energy model has been development complementary with the village's existing hydrologic model as part of the Infrastructure Plan and has been used to identify improvements that will increase the transparency and efficiency of the process of decision-making.Open Restriction set for Item 104051 on 2017-11-08T16:38:22Z with date null by [email protected] by Jennifer Kowalski ([email protected]) on 2017-11-08T16:47:31Z
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Previous issue date: 2017Ope
Watts Beyond Water: Sustainable Water Infrastructure Plan
No full textEnergy and water are two critical resources that are highly interrelated. For example, deliver of clean drinking water and adequate sanitation of wastewater depend on reliable energy supplies. The overlap between energy and water resources and their direct relationship with public policy means that collaboration between engineers and policymakers regarding resource management and use is critically important. The village of Mahomet has been providing a good, reliable, and safe water systems to its citizens for well over seventy years but is facing substantial growth in the near future which will stress the capabilities and performance of both the existing water and energy system. In order to identify capital improvements needed to strengthen the energy efficiency of the existing water system and support future developments, a Sustainable Water Infrastructure Plan has been developed. In this study, an energy model has been development complementary with the village's existing hydrologic model as part of the Infrastructure Plan and has been used to identify improvements that will increase the transparency and efficiency of the process of decision-making.Ope
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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