CountySafety is a web service that visualizes crime trends on both line graphs and a heat map.

1. County Safety
Making Citizens Aware of the Security Status
in the Country
Simeon Oriko

2. The Standard Group Limited
• Rich heritage
dating back to
1902
• Large footprint
in publishing and
advertising

3. The Problem
What are the Public Interest issues?

5. The Challenge
• Inconsistencies in crime reporting
• Data incongruence
• Unstructured and closed formats
• Lack of capacity to handle data
• Mindsets

6. How We Did It
• Built capacity for data skills
• Reached out to data owners including The Kenya
Police Department and various security companies
• Internal 2 day scraperthon
• Design thinking and rapid prototyping
• Culture change

7. DEMO

8. Future of County Safety
• Two data interns
• Library team scraping data
• Online team visualizing data
• Dedicated server resources
• Crowdsourcing efforts
• Editorial push

9. Thank You