mowolf (Motek Sherman)

haz

haz (Christian Muise)

PhD Computer Science student at the University of Toronto.

Nice find!

meslin

meslin (dave meslin)

I'm a Toronto-based community organiser. Areas of interest: Public space, bikes, voting reform, transpartisan advocacy and democratic renewal.

fascinating.

arcald

arcald (arcald)

On the look for quirky stories within datasets.

Hello mowolf.

Thank you very much for contributing this article to this data room. I think that it touches upon a very sensitive issue which imposes an additional riddle that will have to be resolved gracefully along with the tough financial situation.

Since my own work here is mainly in the Greek language i would just like to remind everyone, with even a passing interest to it, that i have chosen a plain B&W scheme to be as objective as possible. I think that this is a very good influence of science to journalism (and the whole "Data Journalism" process)....as long of course as good quality multi-modal data are available :-)

I am saying this because i wouldn't like this dataroom to become a place of political debate as this is completely out of my intentions (and also the theme of the blog which appart from more general posts has also been hosting some work on data released by the greek open geodata service (Some results available in English from:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42973403@N07/6843381893
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42973403@N07/6843381827
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42973403@N07/6843560171)

Please don't take it personally :-) I just thought that i had to clarify this given that some resources appearing here are not entirely in English.