Digging for Data, Tom Cardoso, crime and justice reporter, Globe and Mail
The University of Winnipeg 515 Portage Avenue Room 2M70, Winnipeg, MB, CanadaDescription All too often, data used in criminal justice research and reporting comes from one of a handful of sources: Statistics Canada, open data portals, or a polite request to a government body. Unfortunately, these datasets are always summarized and aggregated, stamping out interesting patterns. But with a bit of strategy (and a whole lot…