Laura Hale

Laura Hale
ParaSports Data

Doctor of Philosophy in Communications

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Introduction
Currently working on creating a disability and disability sport knowledge base called ParaSports News, and finding interesting insights from this data shared in different mediums. Starting to write papers using this data. Concurrently, trying to better support Wikibase, the software that powers ParaSports News, using the Wikibase Community User Group. Our project made us one of the early adopters of the software, and there are lots of ways the software could be pushed to support non-profits around the globe that can assist in supporting human rights.
Additional affiliations
April 2012 - April 2013
National Sports Information Center
Position
  • Researcher
April 2010 - September 2016
University of Canberra
Position
  • PhD Graduate

Publications

Publications (10)
Preprint
The acronym LGTB is used in Spain to collectively discuss different classes with their own unique and often at times conflicting political, legislative and judicial goals. Little research has been done to exam specific class representation of ingroup and institutional external volume of references to these groups in comparison to one another to und...
Article
English Lesbian Visibility Day has been celebrated in Spain since 8 April 2009, with a variety of organizations publishing manifestos in honor of the day. This paper uses discourse analysis to examine the inclusion of other members of the LGTB collective and references to sexual orientation versus gender identity in Lesbian Visibility Day statement...
Research
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A theoretical explanation about how to upgrade Wikibase, the software that powers ParaSports Data. This is important to document as an inability to upgrade is a hinderance to ParaSports Data's goals and to expanding the potential user base for Wikibase.
Research
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While there has been a large quantity of research about migration for elite football players, less research has been done migration patterns of football players with disabilities. An investigation of adapted football players suggests historical migration patterns mirror both football migration patterns. Players following these paths are not doing s...
Technical Report
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Paper written at request of Post Doctoral supervisor at the University of Salamanca. Looks primarily at the organization of data and the scope of content found on ParaSports Data. Focus is on how disability is treated inside a conceptual framework for when people query data.
Technical Report
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ParaSports Data is a disability and disability sports knowledgebase that can serve as a powerful resource for academics, NGOs and other stakeholders in the area of disability rights and disability sports. ParaSport Data was conceived in 2016 as a resource for structured data about disability and disability sport, including facts like dates, perfor...
Technical Report
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ParaSports Data has gaps in several area when it comes to being able to deliver on the objective of providing valuable data to disability and disability sport stakeholders, and as it relates to creating autogenerated content to promote disability sport to a wider audience. These areas generally fall into one of five broad competency areas: • Datab...
Technical Report
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Queries are at the heart of making data on ParaSports Data usable. This one page document explains how to write simple queries to extract data to use for disability research.
Research Proposal
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There are finite resources to assist people. Still, some groups of people have a greater need because of things beyond their control. One such group who need additional assistance is people with disabilities. In many cases though, resources allocated to this group are not equal or fair, even as resources to support them often disproportionately ass...
Presentation
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Presentation about issues around starting to use Wikibase given in Berlin at the Wikidata 2017 Conference celebrating the 5th anniversary of Wikidata. Includes both a developer perspective and a data gathering perspective.

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Questions (5)
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Working on https://para-sports.es/ , @Miguel Paraz and I have been discussing issues around the fact that the major way to get data out of our project for researchers to do their own analysis is using a SPARQL query engine.
But is that the norm? Do people in disability and disability sport studies primarily use SPARQL for data analysis? Or do people use other tools, some proprietary like Sprout Social or Tailwind or Research Gate's Scores? Do researchers primarily use SPSS, Microsoft Excel, R, MATLAB, AMPL, or SAS. or Google Docs?
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Is the location of where Para_swimming #paraswimming world records set more a function where events held or which countries dominate the sport? (Query for map at http://tinyurl.com/ycbltbzl )
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Is there data that people would like to see included that we can seek out that would be useful for academics conducting research related to disability and disability sport?
The following are some sample questions based on data in ParaSports Data or could be answered by writing queries:
· Why do B2 female swimmers have faster yearly best performance times better than B3 in some events, despite having worse vision?
· What is the correlation between Paralympic and Deaflympic participation by nation?
· Is there a correlation between population by disability type in Madrid and the quantity of money given to Plan ADOP recipients in those groups?
· Why are people with intellectual disabilities congregated in the districts in the center of Madrid?
· Is there a correlation between total number of Paralympic and Deaflympic medals won by year, and the percentage GDP spending on incapacity?
· Why do Elite Athletes with Disabilities from Africa fail to retain this status after emigrating from the continent to another country?
· Why is there a difference age disability acquired for people in moped accidents versus motorcycle accidents?
· Why were there more people with acquired disabilities who competed at the 2018 Winter Paralympics than people with congenital disabilities? Is this a result of different types of socialization around sport based on how and when a disability was acquired?
· Why are some many immigrants in the United States who are elite athletes with disabilities adoptees compared to other types of immigrants?
· Why is there a growing difference in the total number of American male disability sportspeople compared to American female sportspeople?
· Why did para-swimming appear to be more popular for total participants world wide from 2005 to 2009 than para-athletics?
· Is there a difference in average annual best recorded lift in powerlifting based on type of disability that would suggest a need to segregate beyond weight and gender?
· Does city altitude impact different types of disabilities differently in para-athletics and swimming?
· What are the most popular sports dual sport Elite Athletes with Disabilities?
· Which disability sports are most popular by country?
· Is country population a predictor of total Paralympic or Deaflympic medals?
· Which sports have the smallest differences in gender participation?
· Did 2012 Plan ADOP scholarship total correlate with total number of medals won by an individual Spanish sportsperson?
Question
ParaSports Data has a lot of data about disability, disability sports and to a smaller extent disability rights. We want the database to be usable by more academics as a tool to facilitate sharing knowledge as such knowledge is key towards improving disability and human rights.
What do people want from https://para-sports.es/ that is not available? Is it a way to input data? Is it more data? Is it data on a specific topic? Is it an ability to edit? Is it easier ways to output data for reuse in other ecosystems?
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Looking to identify datasets that are available for use that contain historical data in slightly more usable forms.  Much of the current data is only available from the IPC from 2009 to 2017.  Earlier datasets are harder to find, and non-Paralympic sports or Paralympics sports not managed by the IPC are even more difficult.

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