Coders Bare Invasion Death Count http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,70196-0.html
To generate the East Timor report, HRDAG researchers spent three
years in the country -- now called Timor-Leste -- collecting and
analyzing mountains of raw data. The group marshaled 8,000
testimonies and developed innovative sources of information,
including the first human rights retrospective mortality survey to
determine how many people died and why.
They surveyed 319,000 graves and used hundreds of Python, Java and
bash shell scripts to build a huge database of mortality data that
contained an 80,000-file directory tree.
(via http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/11/how_statistics_caugh.html )
Ronny
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