Portugal released a webpage to see number of deaths

https://servicos.min-saude.pt/sico/faces/statistics.jsp

by eloycoto • 12 years ago

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ekianjo• 12 years 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.

paulojreis2• 12 years ago

Well, it's Portugal. Probably someone in some state department wanted to do a favour to a friend with an IT company.

tomahock• 12 years ago

this.

orixilus2• 12 years 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...

eloycoto• 12 years 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-tar...

EN: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&tl=en&u=h...

szatkus• 12 years ago

Memento mori.

vasco• 12 years 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.

Portugal released a webpage to see number of deaths

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