Sorry for the lack of posts this week, blog was offline for a bit. (For geeks out there, I now have a company managing my blog for me and we we’re moving from a shared hosting service to a virtual private server – I should have less down time in the future – very excited). [...]
Entries tagged as “public policy”
Census Update and other chuckles
Interview on Open Source, Open Gov & Open Data withe CSEDEV
The other week – in the midst of boarding a plane(!) – I did an interview with the CSEDEV on some thoughts around open data, open government and open source. The kind people at CSEDEV have written up the interview in a kind of paraphrased way and published it as three short blog posts here, [...]
The week in review (or… why I blog and a thank you)
Here’s a few snippets of comments, emails and other communications I’ve had this week in response to specific posts or just the blog in general. Each one touches on why I love blogging and my readers and why this blog has come to mean so much to me. Venting, and finding out your not alone… [...]
Fatness Index 2 years on: the good, the bad, the ugly
Two years ago I saw that Richard Florida and Andrew Sullivan had re-posted a map created by calorielab that color-coded US states by weight. As I found it interesting I created a North America wide map the included Canadian data (knowing that it probably would be a perfect apple to apple comparisons). The map and [...]
Good Statistical Data: We fund it in Africa, but not in Canada
It turns out that the Canadian government is a supporter of collecting good statistical data – especially data that can be used to alleviate poverty and address disease. There’s only one catch. It can’t help Canadians. As the fall out from the canceling of the mandatory long form census continues to grow – today the [...]
To all posts
