{"id":3863,"date":"2024-06-14T00:51:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T22:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:13:30","slug":"why-does-data-on-election-violence-only-include-fatal-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/why-does-data-on-election-violence-only-include-fatal-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does data on election violence only include fatal incidents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher:\u00a0<\/strong> Stuart Morrison, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br \/><strong>Supervisor: <\/strong>Prof, Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Stuart Morrison - Why does data on election violence only include fatal incidents?\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ygL1BJWrvq4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>In this work I seek to understand the effect that fatalities have on the accuracy of election violence datasets, by asking \u201cwhat happens to the quality of the dataset if we create a dataset that includes non-fatal incidents?\u201d The results from the study show that including non-fatal events can decrease the accuracy and overall quality of the dataset by including too much noise and that the fatalities themselves help in describing how the actors interact with each other.<\/p><p><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher:\u00a0 Stuart Morrison, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Prof, Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg In this work I seek to understand the effect that fatalities have on the accuracy of election violence datasets, by asking \u201cwhat happens to the quality of the dataset if we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4393,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions\/4393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}