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Portugal released a webpage to see number of deaths

14 points by eloycoto 12y ago

ekianjo 12y ago
Is there a specific purpose of this tool ? To track epidemies, or weather related deaths (like in summer)? I can see a number of applications, but the n size at the scale of Portugal is rather small.
- paulojreis 12y ago
  Well, it's Portugal. Probably someone in some state department wanted to do a favour to a friend with an IT company.
  - tomahock 12y ago
    this.
  - orixilus 12y ago
    unless you know something we don't, I think you're jumping into conclusions too fast. we (portuguese) _do_ have a tendency of complaining - if you don't have an open data government policy, it's wrong... the minute you have a tiny fraction of that data available for you, it's wrong again...
    - paulojreis 12y ago
      Assuming you are portuguese: go to http://www.base.gov.pt/base2/html/pesquisas/contratos.shtml#pesquisa http://www.base.gov.pt/base2/html/pesquisas/contratos.shtml#... and search for "Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde" (the contracting entity for this service).
      - orixilus 12y ago
        fair enough... from the beginning, I assumed you had more knowledge about this than the rest of us - and you do :P
- eloycoto 12y ago
  Looks like a favour,but this app update the database every 10 min. The related new is about epidemies, suicides and car crash. I think that it's quite good that gov released this tools, opendata is one of the goals of this century ;-) NEW: PT: http://www.publico.pt/sociedade/noticia/ate-ao-inicio-da-tarde-morreram-em-portugal-140-pessoas-1671650 http://www.publico.pt/sociedade/noticia/ate-ao-inicio-da-tar... EN: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.publico.pt%2Fsociedade%2Fnoticia%2Fate-ao-inicio-da-tarde-morreram-em-portugal-140-pessoas-1671650 https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=h...
szatkus 12y ago
Memento mori.
vasco 12y ago
I saw this announcement on local news some days ago. There's data from the past but no easy way to see it at a glance. In any case if you scrape it and do a nicer interface it could be cool to check things like mortality in the winter vs summer, decline in crime / road kills. It was announced in a public safety thingie so I'm guessing its purpose was to track epidemics, just not sure who is going to use it. Journalists maybe if they can deal with the shitty UX. Not complaining though, more access to data is always better.

14 points by eloycoto 12y ago

Is there a specific purpose of this tool ? To track epidemies, or weather related deaths (like in summer)? I can see a number of applications, but the n size at the scale of Portugal is rather small.

paulojreis 12y ago
Well, it's Portugal. Probably someone in some state department wanted to do a favour to a friend with an IT company.
- tomahock 12y ago
  this.
- orixilus 12y ago
  unless you know something we don't, I think you're jumping into conclusions too fast. we (portuguese) _do_ have a tendency of complaining - if you don't have an open data government policy, it's wrong... the minute you have a tiny fraction of that data available for you, it's wrong again...
  - paulojreis 12y ago
    Assuming you are portuguese: go to http://www.base.gov.pt/base2/html/pesquisas/contratos.shtml#pesquisa http://www.base.gov.pt/base2/html/pesquisas/contratos.shtml#... and search for "Administração Central do Sistema de Saúde" (the contracting entity for this service).
    - orixilus 12y ago
      fair enough... from the beginning, I assumed you had more knowledge about this than the rest of us - and you do :P
eloycoto 12y ago
Looks like a favour,but this app update the database every 10 min. The related new is about epidemies, suicides and car crash. I think that it's quite good that gov released this tools, opendata is one of the goals of this century ;-) NEW: PT: http://www.publico.pt/sociedade/noticia/ate-ao-inicio-da-tarde-morreram-em-portugal-140-pessoas-1671650 http://www.publico.pt/sociedade/noticia/ate-ao-inicio-da-tar... EN: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.publico.pt%2Fsociedade%2Fnoticia%2Fate-ao-inicio-da-tarde-morreram-em-portugal-140-pessoas-1671650 https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=h...

szatkus 12y ago

Memento mori.

vasco 12y ago

I saw this announcement on local news some days ago. There's data from the past but no easy way to see it at a glance. In any case if you scrape it and do a nicer interface it could be cool to check things like mortality in the winter vs summer, decline in crime / road kills. It was announced in a public safety thingie so I'm guessing its purpose was to track epidemics, just not sure who is going to use it. Journalists maybe if they can deal with the shitty UX. Not complaining though, more access to data is always better.