Sharing again for morning readers.

New post on the Crowd Counting/Nonviolent Action Lab blog, discussing a few of the sources of selection bias we have to work hard to mitigate when making event data about protest activity in the U.S. countingcrowds.org/2021/02/22/dud…

ICYMI, see Jay Ulfelder's newest post 'Contours of the George Floyd Uprising,' w/ important descriptive patterns from the broadest mass mobilization in US history. countingcrowds.org/2021/02/15/con… via our new Crowd Counting blog Nonviolent Action Lab (it's really great to have Jay blogging again).

.Crowd Counting now has a blog! Our main goal is to report on trends in U.S. protest activity, but we're also aiming to familiarize more people with the dataset and to show ways to use it (with #rstats code where relevant). countingcrowds.org/2021/02/09/hel…

The CCC data dashboard now includes selectors to make it easier to explore these aspects of the data. Those are based on any/none summaries, and you can only use AND logic for now, but it does give you an entry point. Hover over events in map to see deets. nonviolentactionlab.shinyapps.io/ccc-data-dashb…

Here's a tidbit for you: measured by crowd size, the J6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was the largest property-damaging protest event of the Trump era, and it produced more police injuries than any other protest event of the past four years as well, per Crowd Counting data.

If you want to explore the data, I've updated compiled version on Nonviolent Action Lab repo this AM w/events thru 11/1. (NB. tallies in chart are by issue tag, and events can get more than one of those, so sum of cols in chart exceeds event count for October). /end github.com/nonviolent-act…

See this thread for a quick overview of protest events in the U.S. in Sept. 2020. One key finding: only a tiny fraction of anti-racism events last month caused property damage or led to police injuries. twitter.com/JayUlfelder/st…

The good folks at RStudio were kind enough to lend Nonviolent Action Lab and Crowd Counting their soapbox today. Here's what we did with it. #RStats rviews.rstudio.com/2020/08/31/cro…