Here’s the TV piece Alan Carter did last night for the election map. I’m delighted with the way it worked out. Coming from print/digital, I wasn’t sure what to expect from TV/digital, but in practice it works very well, in part because you can just show off an interactive widget to the viewer.
1) The Grid’s cover story this week is a data-driven, map-based project after my own heart: Toronto food establishments that have been ordered closed since January 4, 2001. The links to recent inspections are a useful feature.
This is a valid exercise, but I need to gently question the choice of such a long time frame. Fruit King, a vegetable market at Danforth and Logan, was closed – on February 21, 2002, almost exactly ten years ago. Having been closed by order of the Medical Officer of Health should carry some kind of stigma for a food vendor, but being forced to carry the scarlet letter around a decade later seems a bit harsh.
2) H/T to The Deconstructed City: an animation of a day of of Toronto streetcar traffic.
TTC Streetcars from James Fisher on Vimeo.
We had a joint project with OpenFile Ottawa to show Greater Ottawa’s poll-level results. They produced an excellent Google Street View-based visualization of the Ottawa results and an excellent graphic by Amanda Shendruk.
There’s lots to see in the Ottawa poll data, but the top PC poll in Greater Ottawa (83%) caught my eye – it’s across the road from the Dwyer Hill military special forces base:
Carleton-Mississippi Mills, Poll 268: Dwyer Hill
The Sisters of the Sacred Heart all voted Liberal, making them the city’s top Liberal poll pretty much automatically.
Ottawa Centre, Poll 704:
I am a Toronto-based journalist with experience creating and researching interactive maps, reporting and editing. I am a senior Web coordinator at globalnews.ca.
For much of 2010, I was a contributing editor at openfile.ca. I was a Web editor at thestar.com, the Toronto Star’s Web site, from 2001 to mid-2010.
As well as being a generalist online editor, I created online interactive maps, on as wide a range of topics as possible. The subjects ranged from the serious, like reports of sexually transmitted disease or postal codes of drunk driving suspects, to maps that are just interesting, like dog licences or the range of urban bees.
My Map of the Week blog, launched in mid-2008, attracted about 1.4 million page-views and just under 1,000 comments. In 2009, the blog was listed as a notable entry for the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
I am also experienced in writing and editing in traditional print formats.
