LA Times Data Desk - Crime LA

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LA Times Data Desk - Crime LA

Tracey P. Lauriault
Imagine if our newspapers worked with data in this way!

Crime L.A.
http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/crime/?tumblr=2011-01-26

Other projects from the Data Desk
http://projects.latimes.com/index/
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Tracey P. Lauriault
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Re: LA Times Data Desk - Crime LA

James McKinney
Unfortunately, many police services in Canadian cities are protective
of crime data. In the City of Montreal, the police issue reports twice
a year, but they are not granular enough to be of journalistic
interest. There is better data in Montreal's West Island - with crimes
being reported down to the block if I remember correctly. As far as I
know, no Canadian paper has a "data desk" like at the NYT, Chicago
Tribune, LA Times, Texas Tribune, and St. Petersburg Times (that's
actually an exhaustive list of the US papers that I know have data
desks).

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Imagine if our newspapers worked with data in this way!
>
> Crime L.A.
> http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/crime/?tumblr=2011-01-26
>
> Other projects from the Data Desk
> http://projects.latimes.com/index/
> --
> Tracey P. Lauriault
> 613-234-2805
> http://traceyplauriault.ca/
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