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 [...]
Breaking Stuff
Sep 28th, 2011
As most people who have read my tweets know, I break things. I break things a lot. Lately I’m even paid to break a particular database with two particular pieces of software. I do it well, and I’m thankfully on great terms with one of the developers, so things are getting fixed. But when I [...]
SummerCamp 2011 aka #sc2011 and organization
Aug 22nd, 2011
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. [...]
FOSSLC and me
Aug 10th, 2011
At the start of May, a week before my 28th birthday and a few days before my first trip to New York City, I lost my job with DM Solutions. It sounds like terrible timing, but it actually wasn’t so much. Jason and I had already talked about finances and living together, it was just [...]
The Importance of Open Data and Accountability
May 11th, 2011
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, [...]
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