Tag: publications

Open data, gender and violence in Latin America (Fumega, 2019)

Data standardization and visualization

| open data, publications, standardization

This article focuses on the project entitled Estandarización de datos de femicidios (Standardisation of Data on Femicide). Firstly, we contextualise the current status of open data in Latin America. We then explain our hypothesis of how standardising data could help us improve data quality and, lastly, we reflect on our study. Standardisation (and the eventual…
Vibrant Maps (Suárez Val, 2018)

Art and data to make feminicides visible, Data standardization and visualization

| artivism, mapping, publications, research

In recent years, feminist activists in various Latin American countries have been creating digital maps of feminicide —the gender-related violent deaths of women. The intersection of activism and mapping has been explored by scholars and activists who have addressed the performative, participatory and political nature of mapping, and by feminist scholars who have analysed and…