Toronto Building Permits Take a Median 272 Days — Answerable Only After Data Cleaning
RichardsonDx · x · 2026-10-09
Using his cleaned Toronto datasets, the author answers a previously unanswerable question: median 272 days for a new-building permit vs 19 days for small residential jobs. The underlying cost fields were mostly non-numeric before cleaning.
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