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• OpenGov Infographic by DémocratieOuverte.org

  May 15, 2013 in Uncategorized

  Our friends in la belle province are doing some lovely work! The image is available on Flickr and see what DémocratieOuvete.org are up to!

• Volunteer National Household Survey (V-NHS)

  May 8, 2013 in Uncategorized

  A survey is not a census, a census is a state sanctioned mandatory scientific and systematically carried out count of the population and its characteristics.  It is a national civic duty to fill it out, providing of course one believes that knowing the nature of the Canadian population matters.  A volunteer survey can be a [...]

• Data Science

  April 29, 2013 in Uncategorized

  I just came across some intensive data science training programs.  It is all part of the Data Deluge and I am sure universities are going to go big on this topic in the next 5 years, especially with the ubiquitous talk every time I turn around about big data.  I am also sure there will [...]

• Silencing the Archivists? Who does that? Canada does!

  April 29, 2013 in Uncategorized

  Open data is happening on one side of government while access to data and information is getting either reduced or locked down in other parts.  This story about muzzling archivists was released some weeks ago. An anecdote.  Yesterday I went to see the movie NO, about the marketing campaign for the NO side of the [...]

• ODX13 Presentation: Thinking Infrastructurally

  April 29, 2013 in Uncategorized

  The Open Data Exchange (ODX13) was a really great day. Below are my slides and related URLS.  The main point was to discuss how we take the learning by doing that has been ongoing in the open data field and now begin to integrate long standing and well established open access to data thinking such [...]