Lilly and I have both been incredibly busy with the season of life that we’re both in. But, we have still been making time to work on our police patterns project. Lilly has begun building the basics of our webpage and we want to meet with a few of our friends who are graphic designers to get their opinion on what the design of our website should be like. We have also researched what it would take to co-own the domain name. We hope to figure out how to do that and own it soon. Doug has sent us the data that he was still having issues with in ArcView and Lilly has a friend who has used ArcView and would like to help with that. I have also priced how much ArcView would cost and its about $1,000. So we will be keeping that in the back of our heads for when the website is close to complete and we need to utilize ArcView.
We have also continued to pursue the police names and their matching badge ID numbers. Captain Easley didn’t want to give us that information so he suggested that we to the Norman Municipal Court. So last week Lilly and I went to the Municipal Court and told them that we were wanting the Norman Police Names matched with their badge ID numbers. After employees discussed our request, they called Captain Easley and sent us over to talk to him. He told us that he would talk to his superiors about our request, since we had been so persistent and see what they said. So after a few days I got an email from him saying that his superiors saw no reason why they shouldn’t give us that information. So he gave us the information that we’d been chasing for the past few months.
We are looking forward into the future pretty seriously and coming up with names of people, businesses and organizations that we think would be interested in supporting us financially. We have also toyed with the idea of putting out project on kickstarter.com once we get our site fully up and running.
We’re really excited about the potential that our idea has and we’re excited to see where it takes us!

After an extensive break for Christmas and New Years Lilly and I are back to working on our data journalism project. We met with Doug last week and talked to him about the upcoming semester. He told us that he had mostly been cleaning up the data so that Access can properly analyze it. He is emailing us the files that still need cleaning up so that we can help with this side of the project. This week we met with Chris Krug again and Lilly and I decided on a name for our website: policepatternsproject.com. We also talked through what we want the layout of the homepage to look like and what all should be on the navigation. We are going to go ahead and start building the basics of our web page since we already own a one-year hosting package. We will be buying that domain name very soon. We will be going to the municipal court soon to try and obtain the names of the Norman police officers and their correlating badge ID numbers. We still haven’t decided if this information will a part of our final website or not. But, we still want to go ahead and obtain the information that way we have it if we decide it should e a part of our website in the future. We also will be going to register our business name with the Secretary of the State. We want this to be a long-term project and have big plans for the future of it.