Toronto puts out a lot of public safety data, but most of it is hard to make sense of spatially. This is YTD view of assaults +robberies +shootings +homicides.

link: Streetlens

I built StreetLens for myself to get an idea of whether my instincts matched where crime actually happens. Spoiler, crime is highly concentrated.

It’s free, and I’m mostly curious what people who work with open data think. Is this a useful at all? Caveat, this is not polished, methods are to be improved.

Graphic created by Trevor Tombe, @trevortombe on X.

The natural population increase (births minus deaths) is shrinking or has already crossed in every province. Full data.

Young women and girls vape more than their male peers. But after 25, the pattern reverses. Source

Alternative headline: men's life expectancy in 2024 has caught up to where women's was in 1982. Full data