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Monday to Friday, at about 8:30 EST, I get an email from Statistics Canada. Every day, they release new data that I can map, every day I take a look at the email to see what I can make, however specific or not. And that’s where I stop. I tend to mark it if I [...]

As I posted a few weeks ago, I’m in charge of organizing an entire conference. I’ve had a ridiculous amount of help from my boss and Mekki, who I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting yet. There is unsurprisingly a large amount of organization that is required for a conference – even a one day affair. [...]

I believe in releasing data. I believe that governments and agencies paid for by government money should release data that can help people. We paid for the data, and if the data can help us make smarter, better informed decisions, then we should be able to see it. We should be able to access it, [...]

A few weeks ago, I got convinced, pretty easily I must admit, to be the Co-Chair of the OSGeo Ottawa Chapter.  Apparently this doesn’t require me to do a lot of work, but it still scares the hell out of me. I can talk, a lot, but I generally don’t tend to lead a group [...]

This past week has been full of things keeping me busy, my parents coming down for the week being the major one. I have been spending very little time at home and even less time at a computer this long weekend, so this will be a short post. Someone that I follow on twitter posted [...]