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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Yes that’s right: Memphis hip-hop artist Sir Vince rapping about the swine flu. It’s full of public health service announcements and it’s catchy as hell. H1N1 Talking bout the swine flu Talking bout the swine flu? Talking bout the swine flu.

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Part 1 of the Commercial Appeal’s True Crime series has been published at last. A lot of work went into the project and the result is many different components. You can head directly to the project page, or if there’s too much to wrap your head around you can use this handy road map instead. [...]

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The Commercial Appeal launches the first of its five-piece series on crime in Memphis on Sunday. There’ll be about one new installment every few weeks through the end of the year. Editor Chris Peck wrote a promo for the website. He explains a little bit about what we did, how we did it and, importantly, [...]

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