On September 17th/18th, we co-hosted our second civic hackathon with the Toronto Public Library. Lina at the TPL has put together an excellent recap, including chaptered videos of each project presentation (big thanks Sumaiya). We’ve learned a few things that may be helpful if you’re organizing a civic hacking event. To that end, I’m writing […]
Presented in Partnership with the Toronto Public Library, City of Toronto, and Social Planning Toronto. Registration is now open for the TO Prosperity Hackathon on Sept 17/18, a free event that we are co-organizing, hosted by the Toronto Public Library. If you’re not in Toronto, don’t fret – you can participate remotely. The focus of the hackathon […]
The day has come and I’m working my way through our City’s data portal. Starting point of the project has been to assess exactly what we’ve got on the City of Toronto data portal – how to summarize it and how to create a new data set of its metadata. More on that project here […]
Hi everybody! Ready for some data fun? Source Good Ok, here’s what we’re going to do: Intro activity on computer – (in pairs) 5 minutes Introduction to Data (5 minutes) Computer Activity (in pairs) (15 minutes) Group Discussion: What did you learn? (7 minutes) Then we repeat. At the end, you’ll have five minutes to tell […]
The open data community is always looking for ways to show the value of open data. We talk a lot about telling open data stories and mapping case studies and so on, and as time ticks on the number of stories is growing. And to this end, there is an opportunity for our community to […]