Fixmystreet is a neat little project out of the UK, made to: help people report, view, or discuss local problems they’ve found to their local council by simply locating them on a map. It l...
I’m going to feature some Canadian data access projects and people working with data in Canada that I find interesting and important on datalibre.ca . Here is my first go at it. Hope you like i...
https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/06/28/the-data-liberation-initiative-dli/
This is an older post (May 2007) from Michael Geist, but well worth a read, regarding Canada’s National Science and Tech Strategy. He argues that opening up government-funded R&D data will resu...
https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/06/28/gesit-on-national-science-tech-strategy/
Mix up and make pretty your data at Swivel: Swivel’s mission is to liberate the world’s data and make it useful so new insights can be discovered and shared… We believe data is most valuabl...
This presentation is not actually about podcasting, it’s about data…but it was presented at podcastersacrossborders, and LibriVox is the inspiration for these thoughts.
https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/06/23/how-free-data-will-save-the-world/
Today’s New York Times has a story on regional variation in the availability and cost of health care. The story is accompanied by a “multimedia interactive graphic†— th...
https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/06/19/jon-udell-on-dartmouth-atlas-of-health-care/
The great and famous Rosling Video, about data, from TED.
Not canadian but could be? We have the best Radarsat data in the world and have done some great work in the past with tracking down toxic bins floating around in flood zones using radar.�...
https://www.datalibre.ca/2007/06/18/satellite-images-eyes-on-darfur/