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  • Mapping Western Economic Diversification Grants

    A few weeks ago two new data sets appeared on the Open Data Canada website, WD – Grants and Contributions over $25,000 and Project Geo-Information, which "provides geographical information on projects issued by or on behalf of Western Economic Diversification Canada." Not particularly well-named data sets, but that's another issue. I thought it would be a

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  • Watching “Fort McMurray” grow

    A new data set was recently released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Land Use for 2010. As I was poking at it I saw that this data set in turn leads to an interactive map in which one can explore not only the 2010 data set, but also 2000 and 1990. As I was poking at

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  • Some map-making exploration with Geosheets

    GISLounge has a great post called How To Make a Map From Open Data Using a Spreadsheet, which is actually using Google Sheets specifically. Earlier today, I also tripped across a post highlighting an excellent visualization of how to choose beer based on ABV and IBU values. That post lead me to the original data set, which

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  • 4 Easy & Secure Ways to Record Screen Videos on iPhone or iPad: A Comparative Guide

    I received an email from JP letting me know that a link on an old post of mine, The definitive guide to iOS screencasting, was no longer good.  He knew that 'cause he'd just finished writing a much more comprehensive post called 4 Easy & Secure Ways to Record Screen Videos on iPhone or iPad:

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  • Open Data For the Loss, or the Win?

    Two seemingly-contradictory open data stories crossed my path today. First, The Scholarly Kitchen notes that Scientific Reports On Track To Become Largest Journal In The World, and one of the reasons may be that the PLOS ONE, the current Largest Journal, requires   authors to make “all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without

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