LOVE Patrick Cain's Data Viz Maps Part 2: Wellbeing Toronto

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via patrickcain.ca

From Patrick Cain's site:

"This was also published at globalnews.ca

The City of Toronto’s long-awaited Wellbeing Toronto map site launched today (in beta), giving users the ability to map 140 officially-defined neighbourhoods by dozens of different data points, from arson to breast cancer screening to sports facilities. It’s a much more user-friendly approach to open data than we’ve seen in Toronto (and elsewhere) up till now.

Most of the possible maps are based on census criteria: age, income, ethnicity, employment.

Many of the grimmer social indicators take a familiar checkmark shape across the face of the city. Premature mortality, for example, works southeast from Rexdale down Black Creek Drive into the west end, through patchy parts of downtown and then northeast into Scarborough. It’s the shape of Bad Things in Toronto – it’s repeated on maps I’ve created with high school dropouts, STIs, homicides with male victims and on and on..."

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