East Vancouver voters least likely to fill in their whole ballot (map)
UPDATE: Here are some of my thoughts on whether not using up all your 10 council votes is a good strategy. In the last few days of the Vancouver municipal election campaign, there’s been a lot of talk...
View ArticleInteractive map shows you how your Vancouver neighbourhood voted
Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson won a third term last night over the NPA’s Kirk LaPointe by a 5-point margin: 46.7% to 41.1% margin. But who did your neighbourhood support? Check...
View ArticleSee B.C.’s biggest industrial polluters on our interactive map
My colleague Larry Pynn has a new story up about B.C.’s biggest industrial polluters, based on data from Environment Canada. It includes an interactive map I worked with him on showing where the...
View ArticleSee how much money was donated to your kid’s school last year
My colleague Tracy Sherlock has a new story about how much money Vancouver schools have received in donations, based on data she received from the Vancouver School Board. An interactive chart — where...
View ArticleInteractive map: What’s the most popular baby name in your area?
My colleague Tara Carman and I had a three-part series in the paper over the past few days looking at baby names in B.C. The first part of that series looked at the most popular baby names in B.C. by...
View ArticleInteractive map: Which Vancouver pot shops are near schools?
The City of Vancouver has proposed new rules to regulate the city’s growing number of marijuana-related businesses, including banning such shops from within 300 metres of a school or another...
View ArticleInteractive map: What’s the vaccination rate at your kid’s school?
About a year ago, my colleague Tara Carman published some interactive maps showing the measles vaccination rate at schools across the Lower Mainland. Well, today Tara got hold of updated vaccine data...
View ArticleInteractive map: How many of Vancouver’s 84 pot shops are near you?
Last week, when the City of Vancouver proposed new rules to regulate the city’s growing number of marijuana-related businesses, we ran a series of maps showing how close the city’s pot shops were to...
View ArticleGet the raw data for our B.C. baby name series
Last month, we ran a three-part series on baby names in B.C. A lot of the series was based on 100 years of data on boy names and girl names posted on the B.C. government’s open data site, plus...
View ArticleHow many people are running red lights near you? (interactive map)
We’ve got a story in the paper today about where the most red-light camera tickets are handed out. Here’s the interactive map that accompanied the story (mobile version here): The red-light camera data...
View ArticleInteractive map: How Metro Vancouver voted on transit tax
I made an interactive map, and some charts, to accompany our coverage of yesterday’s transit tax plebiscite results. Here they are (mobile versions here and here): Filed under: The Data Trail Tagged:...
View ArticleInteractive map: Where in B.C. does the power go out most often?
Meant to post this a few days ago but got busy with a few other things. I had a little story on Monday on where in B.C. power outages are most common. Here’s the map and chart (mobile versions here and...
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