A recent history of the Memphis Grizzlies, timeline style, courtesy Michael Erskine, digital content editor at The Commercial Appeal.

Memphis Grizzlies: 2009-2010 Season Highlights on Dipity.

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Deb Wenger, of the University of Mississippi School of Journalism, came up to the Commercial Appeal a few weeks ago to interview some of the folks involved in our True Crime project.
Her case study will be out on thecrimereport.org in the next week or so, and will include my how-to guide to working with crime data. In [...]

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I’m learning to hunt — so what started out as me toolin’ around on the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency website turned into an excuse to make a neat map of public hunting land within striking distance of Memphis.
Turns out there’s actually quite a bit of land out here: more than 370,000 acres of Wildlife Management [...]

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This time around The Commercial Appeal tackles violent crime on the neighborhood level. Kristina Goetz examines the Clementine neighborhood, which I identified as having the most violent crimes July 2000-May 2009, and 39 other neighborhoods which account for 10 percent of the violent crime in Memphis.
Read the story here and don’t miss the rest of [...]

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This past weekend Commercial Appeal reporter Cindy Wolff explored the trends in pet adoption and euthanasia at Memphis Animal Services.
I did the data analysis for the story and the thing that struck me instantly was the 79% euthanasia rate for dogs and cats last year. Damn. At least it’s down from the 82% in 2006.
Makes me sad though to [...]

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