Category: Miscellaneous
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Considering Apple News+? Don’t forget to check your local library first!
I guess I'll wait to see what TV+ brings later before declaring yesterday's Apple event a total yawner, but it did remind me to check out Flipster and Browzine again before spending any time and money on News+. What are Flipster and Browzine, you ask? They're digital magazine and journal platforms that you might want…
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An introduction to cancer (excluding Quebec)
I subscribe to The Daily, from Statistics Canada, and was intrigued earlier this week when they announced that Canadian Cancer Statistics 2018 would be released the following day. This was the first time I remembered seeing StatsCan announce that something would be released, rather than that something had been released. Also, I couldn't recall a…
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Installing Extensions in Open Refine – note to self: RTFM
One of my all-time favourite open source tools is Open Refine, which "is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data." Today I'm talking about that extending bit. One of the nice features of Open Refine is…
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Sorry, the new Wayback Machine extension for Chrome needs some work!
Feb 2, 2017 update: improvements have been made! The other day I saw a headline about a new extension for the Chrome browser from the Internet Archive, Wayback Machine. I had initially ignored this, assuming it was the same thing as Wayback Chrome, but upon further inspection, the latter, which has been around for quite…
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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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Thoughts on Canada’s Draft New Plan on Open Government
Last week the Government of Canada released the latest draft of the new plan on Open Government, and I thought it was pretty good reading! Here are some of the things I learned, or highlighted as particularly interesting: Canada was recently ranked 4th out of 92 countries by the World Wide Web Foundation’s Open Data Barometer which…
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Please support ResearchBuzz on Patreon!
Received this email earlier today, and would like you to read it as well. If you're an information professional of any stripe and somehow not aware of Tara's work with ResearchBuzz, now's a perfect time. I currently subscribe to well over 200 RSS feeds(!) and multiple email lists, and if I had to choose just…