New Italian Prisoner Deaths On Google Maps

Italian journalist Jacopo Ottaviani (twitter.com/jackottaviani) has been investigating the deaths of prisoners inside the Italian jurist system. You tin read Jacopo's study inward Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italian) or inward the Guardian (English).

Using a Google Map Jacopo has plotted most a G prisoner deaths from 2002 until 2012. At dissimilar zoom levels you lot tin thought pie charts on the map showing the percentages of the causes of conk inward that region. The figures present that over one-half of the deaths inward Italian prisons are the lawsuit of suicide.

In the Guardian Jacopo explains how he created the map. The "Data was scraped using ScraperWiki too refined amongst Google Refine; the resultant tables were merged using Google Fusion too in conclusion visualised through Batchgeo."

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