#OpenData with @ESDC_GC’s Chief Data Office. Former newsroom code nerd. Teacher/mentor. He/him. william@wolfewylie.com
Apr 26, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
When I first joined the federal government, the structure of the organization was deeply confusing to me. Too many acronyms, so many lines of reporting, the sheer size of the place. It's a difficult place to learn.
So I built a tool.
Today I can share it with all of you:
I wanted an easy visual resource to show me where any team is and who they report to: Give me a sense of it all. That data came from GEDS: the Government of Canada's employee phone book.
I’ve been working with the @cbcmarketplace team for almost two years building this story, building the dataset and the structures, helping the team prove how widespread these problems are. We’ve published a few stories, but this is a big one. (THREAD): cbc.ca/news/marketpla…@cbcmarketplace The raw reports are all public information. Nothing is preventing anyone from looking them up. But it’s very difficult to look at the system as a whole. The reports live here: publicreporting.ltchomes.net/en-ca/Search_S…
Jul 23, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
After the death of George Floyd, and the massive international movement to defund and demilitarize police, we got to work trying to see the Canadian context. Today, that project goes live.
There is no central database of police violence or killings in Canada. In 2018 we set out to build our own, and we launched Deadly Force, a database of everyone killed by police since Jan. 1, 2000.
