{"id":1666,"date":"2017-10-23T13:45:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2017-10-23T13:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:45:50","slug":"week-3-every-animal-counts-audit-dataset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/2017\/10\/23\/week-3-every-animal-counts-audit-dataset\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3: ‘Every Animal Counts’ Audit Dataset"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Every Animal Counts\u00a0<\/em>audit<\/a> released by City Controller Ron Galperin which reflects that “the Los Angeles\u2019 Department of Animal Services is making progress toward its goal of making Los Angeles a ‘No Kill’ City.” Although the results of the audit credit the city for the advancements made to prevent euthanization of animals in Los Angeles’ shelters, the description of the dataset does claim that “still, last year about one of every four lost or abandoned animals that entered the City\u2019s shelters were euthanized.”<\/p>\n

The dataset includes the shelter from which data was collected in the audit, the species of animal (dog, cat, rabbit, and others such as pocket pets and birds), the number of animals undergoing various shelter functions (number of animals placed in foster care, number of animals euthanized and number of animals live-released). The audit time period accounts for June 2014 and June 2015, to compare the numbers from both years.<\/p>\n

The dataset, itself, contains 485 rows and 7 columns, accounting for 7 content types, which show the shelter name, procedure, animal-type and the data of the number of animals in <\/span>June 2014<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>June 2015<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>YTD Fiscal 14\/15<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>YTD 13\/14<\/span><\/i>. The number of animals are categorized by procedure, each procedure being listed one after another. For example, below is the data for the number of animals in shelters which were fostered, animals euthanized and animals released, listed after each other:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The ontology of this dataset seems to be the most applicable for a few organizations. This includes the City of Los Angeles in their efforts to become a “No Kill” City to evaluate the L.A. shelter system, the shelters involved who will be able to compare their numbers to that of other shelters so they will be able to adjust their procedures accordingly, and also for the potential adopters to become more involved and provide incentive for a campaign to increase adoptions of animals from shelters rather than buying.<\/p>\n

The data does show that the euthanization numbers from 2014 have come down in 2015 comparing shelter to shelter; however, there is a lesser drop in euthanization rates in dogs than cats indicating that dogs in Los Angeles shelters still face the high rate of being “put down.” Also, the numbers indicate that there are several shelters in Los Angeles which have not reduced their numbers significantly in the last year from 2014 to 2015, and rather have increased the number of euthanized animals.<\/p>\n

What can be concluded from this dataset, therefore, is that the rates of animals being adopted and fostered in Los Angeles has increased, and several shelters in L.A. do have lower rates of euthanasia in animals. Unfortunately, the fact that “last year about one of every four lost or abandoned animals that entered the City\u2019s shelters [was] euthanized” still proves that, at least until 2015, changes needed to be made to push the city in the “No Kill” status direction. What we are missing, to have a better evaluation of the city’s current state, is current data from the time June 2016 and June 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Every Animal Counts\u00a0audit released by City Controller Ron Galperin which reflects that “the Los Angeles\u2019 Department of Animal Services is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}