6. A sample of what you get.What
could you do with it?
• A sample of what you can get
7. US Citizen and Immigration
Service and border patrol
CIR story based on border patrol data
8. Explore mapping and viz data
tools. Some options include:
• Tableau Public – mapping and viz and dashboards
• Batch Geo – very easy datapoint maps
• Google fusion tables – from spreadsheets to maps to
relationship diagrams. Easy to learn. Kind of ugly…
• Arcview’s free mapping tools.
9. Here’s the CIR pot party
interactive
http://static.apps.cironline.org/border-seizures/:
10. Other sites – international
tourism and travel
• State department travel advisories and consular
statements
• State departmentreports of deaths of American citizens
abroad (RODAC)
• Visa stats from Department of State:
http://travel.state.gov/visa/statistics/statistics_1476.html
11. Learn to recognize data opportunities
Request electronic records,
use Google advanced search options to explore
• Pdfs – are image files or files with text embeded
• Text files - .txt can be separated by columns or
commas and imported into Excel
• Spreadsheet files - .xls for Excel
• Database files - .dbf
• Search forms on the internet =data
16. Data can drive narratives:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/data_ce
ntral/item/Money-Laundering-8792.php
17. Use spreadsheets to build
timelines and explore connections
http://www.johntedesco.net/blog/
18. Experiment with simple relationships/ maps
in Google FusionTables
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S457047pVkn
19. Conventional public records
• Don’t forget business licenses, liquor licenses,
• Property records
• Voter registration (mass registrations of naturalized
citizens for example). US Election Assistance Commission
has reports by state http://www.eac.gov/registration-data/
• Corporate records
• Maps/satellite maps…I found a guy with a moat that way.
21. EOIR – and Immigration courts
Includes data on disciplined judges (stats only) and disciplined attorneys.
http://www.justice.gov/eoir/discipline.htm
24. TRAILS OF BLOOD AND BODIES:
http://azstarnet.com/online/databases/border-deaths-database/html_c104ad38-3877-11df-
aa1a-001cc4c002e0.html
25. Lawsuits: Beyond court records, lawyers can have e-mails,
depositions with amazing details.
Temporary visa ring
26. Immigration sources who can
unlock doors (or jail cells):
• AILA members
• ACLU immigration/refugee resettlement offices
• Immigrants’ rights groups
• Chaplains and volunteers in immigration detention
• Federal agents
• Local police officers – especially those on federal task
forces
27. Schools data – universities, state
government, local school systems
• Students in bilingual education
• Students in ESL.What languages are
represented?What schools are most
international? How well are immigrant
schools funded?How many teachers are
immigrants?
28. Many other sources…
• People on the street.
• Academic researchers/investigators
• Businesses/business licenses/property records.
• Ethnic chambers of commerce
• Restaurants/bars. Go hang out.
• Churches, mosques and temples.
• Yellow pages
• Ethnic media editors
• Economists
• International organizations…Where the money goes