The week is coming to an end, so here’s a fun, Friday afternoon data treat. Using the face.com API I analyzed the portraits of all 12 of Edmonton’s city councillors and the mayor to determine looked the happiest in their photo. Get happy Ward 5, because your councillor sure is. Karen Leibovici is Edmonton’s happiest [...]
As part of the MJ Bear fellowship with the ONA, I am blogging for them on journalists.org. This post is reprinted from http://journalists.org/2012/01/10/a-dozen-years-of-homicides-mapped/. Edmonton homicides – 1999 – 2011 It was a particularly rough year for homicides in Edmonton. In 2011, the “City of Champions” was Canada’s homicide capital with a record-breaking 47. As the year was wrapping up, [...]