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PhD Research Data via API - Conflict between groups
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Deimos Mallus
Deimos Heavy Industries
#1 - 2015-08-11 01:06:41 UTC
Hello all,

I am doing research in criminology on conflict between groups, more specifically gang related conflict. EVE corporations and alliances, no offense, map pretty closely to types of real world drug dealing street gangs and organizations where conflict over resources and territory without legal ways of settling disputes occurs.

In essence I am after some (no more than 3 months but 30 days would be adequate) data that would be contained in all complete killmails for that time period. In an ideal world (hint) the EVE data fairies would email me a .csv file of every killmail for the last three months and I can go ahead and complete my doctorate in good order. However I am not sure that is going to magically happen.

I would be looking at the distribution of kills across time and space as well as the features of the conflict (number of ships present at conflict events, ship types, damage, ISK losses/gains on both sides etc). Perhaps some network analysis of collaborating players and groups (teams?) within and between corps and alliances. Finally looking at the impact of conflict on corps and alliances (linking losses and gains to economic and territorial strength over time).

The questions I need to check on are:

The official api can't be used to pull killmails without relevant api keys i.e killmails are not public in that sense?

That being the case (unless I am wrong) killboard apis are the answer to my data issue. The only question there is how representative the killboards are. In other words what percentage of the total number of killmails do the killboards record? The major problem with real world crime data is that it is never complete data. EVE data is complete data in that respect but I still need to be able to say that I can account for a representative sample of data.

Thanks for any help that the community can provide. Hopefully aside from the real world implications I can provide some insight into conflict in the game as well.
Dragonaire
Here there be Dragons
#2 - 2015-08-12 15:54:56 UTC
I don't think anyone can tell you exactly how many killmails don't make it into one of the major kiilboards but it's a very small percentage. Basically for one not to do so would require that the victim and everyone with killmail access in their corp not to give out a API key plus the same for every pilot and corp involved in the kill to also not do so. So at a minimum there are 4 parties that have access to the info and they would have had to prior to the kill decided not to report kills for it not to appear some where. It's just a guess on my part but I'd say less than 1% go completely unreported and most of them are less 'crimes' etc and more like private duels etc and would have little or no baring on what you are trying to study.

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Deimos Mallus
Deimos Heavy Industries
#3 - 2015-08-13 22:50:05 UTC
Hey,

Thanks for clarifying that for me. It solves a lot of problems and makes my supervisors happy. Happy supervisors make my life much easier.
H3llHound
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2015-08-17 13:38:55 UTC
you could find the owner of zkillboard for example and ask him nicely to help you