TORONTO – Buying Halloween candy can be a tricky task – buy too little and you could end up with a mob of angry ghosts and goblins at your door, but buy too much and you run the risk of devouring it all yourself (hello sugar hangover).
Luckily, Jens von Bergmann, a software developer from Vancouver, has come up with a clever way to use census data to help gauge how much candy you should stock up on ahead of Saturday night’s Trick-or-Treat fun.
The map shows the ratio of children in your area at “prime trick-or-treating age” – defined as ages 5 to 14, by Statistics Canada.
To see how many kids you might expect on Saturday, hit the “locate me” button on the map to zoom in on your neighbourhood (note: you will have to enable location services on your web browser to do this).
Looking for a good scare on Halloween? Von Bergmann has also mapped some “haunted houses” around Regina. Mind you, they are technically “houses not occupied by usual residents,” according to the census – so they may not be haunted at all.
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