Portrait of the founder of BonQuery

About

About Miriam Marling and BonQuery’s independent Toronto shelter data and public-accountability work.
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Miriam Marling

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I’m a Toronto-based data researcher with a Master’s in cognitive neuroscience, two peer-reviewed publications, and a public-service role at Statistics Canada.

R is my native analytical language. I’m also using Oracle SQL, APEX, and Python to build BonQuery’s projects end to end: database, dashboard, analysis, and writing.

I started BonQuery because so much of the publicly available data on humanitarian issues in Canada sits on government open-data pages where most people will never see it. The first project focuses on Toronto’s publicly funded shelter system. More to follow.

See who Toronto’s shelter data counts, who it misses, and how BonQuery uses words such as homeless and unhoused →

Open methods and public code

The BonQuery.ca repository is public. It contains the Quarto pages, styles, publishing workflows, and aggregated data used by the website. The raw-data pipelines and primary research analysis remain in a separate private repository while manuscript work is underway.

If you find a problem in the website or its published data, you can open an issue on GitHub.

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