Where: Malone's Taphouse - 608 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1V8

When: Tuesday, March 5th from 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time

Who: Any member, follower, subscriber or partner of the Canadian Open Data Society, or friends, relations, associates, neighbours or colleagues (FRANC) of ours!

Want to learn about what's going on in the Canadian Open* (Data/Government/Tech) landscape, or share what you have been working on?

Where: CRAFT Beer Market Edmonton, 10013 101A Ave, Edmonton, AB T5J 0C3

When: Thursday, August 31st from 6:00 p.m. Mountain Time

Who: Any member, follower, subscriber or partner of the Canadian Open Data Society, or friends, relations, associates, neighbours or colleagues (FRANC) of ours!

Why: Because its summer and we are tired of Zoom!

How: Ample secure underground parking is available nearby. 4378 is the code for the HangTag Rice Howard above ground parkade that is just down the block from the venue (10135 – 100A Street Northwest); there is also the Library parkade located at 10172 100 St NW; there is also street parking that is paid.

What: Socialise, share news & updates, see old friends and contacts, make new ones!

Open Data Pub Night Windsor

Did you know that you could become an open data contributor in just a few minutes?

Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base linked to Wikipedia. Boasting nearly 1 million data items about everything in the world, it is an essential information source for Google, Bing and many other discovery services.

In this hands-on introduction, you will learn the basics of Wikidata. Click here to learn more.

Why a Data Forum? Who doesn't need and use data? Is data and related activities increasing? I the data ecosystem continually evolving? Let's explore this further!

Join GOOD for its annual Fall Forum - this one focused on Data. We'll be covering topics that can relate to most including: Digital Transformation, Data Governance and Data Stewardship and Putting Data to Work.

Funding Opportunities with Mitacs possibilités de financement

Lessons from teaching digital to gov't execs & what it means for open data

All About ESRI's Community Map of Canada

Presenting Two Great Sessions from the Canadian Open Data Summit: 'A Roadmap for Data Across Canada' and 'Data Liberation Matters'

We’ve all heard about AI, but how can you use it with open data? In this hands-on session, we will be using Python and running a few AI algorithms to look at the property assessment dataset from the City of Toronto to identify some insights and build a projection for future property prices.

For this very special webinar of the Canadian Open Data Society, we feature a number of lightning talks by various Open Data advocates and practitioners foreshadowing major talks, presentations, etc. that they will be delivering at the upcoming Canadian Open Data Summit September 15th and 16th, 2021, hosted by the City of Montreal and the Province of Quebec. This will be a great overview and motivation to attend this most historic, virtual and fully bilingual Open Data conference!

how Open Data can be a source of perceptions that power your passion, project or business proposition. Whether you are an entrepreneur, a project leader in a larger organization, or simply pursuing your passion of choice, you can learn how to gain fresh and actionable insights from the increasing amounts of Open Data that are released every day.

No coding experience required! In this webinar, CODS member Mike Zusev will introduce us all to the beauties and insights that can be generated from data within a few understandable steps, using a commonly available software program. Register here!

From outbreaks in schools to the increase in deaths, we’ll look at the impact of the pandemic a full year since the lockdowns and closures. Together with three speakers, we’ll also explore the various datasets and visualizations created to understand the impact of the virus.

Canada is experiencing a access to justice crisis. Yet we lack the data we need to design empirical solutions. Canada has a legal data deficit: We know more about sports team than we do about our legal system. This event seeks to address that problem. After briefly discussing these issues, we’ll begin identifying and gathering existing datasets that academics have generated about Canada’s legal system.

The Open Data Iron Chef is a practical and collaborative workshop that allows participants to brainstorm, conceptualize, and design the rudimentary business case for an Open Data powered civic tech application. Think of it as Open Data meets the Iron Chef meets the Dragon’s Den

It is time we begin to tell the stories about the heroes who are changing our government. In this session you will learn the basics of storytelling, such as the three-act-structure; you will be introduced to free tools, such as Fade In; and see how Open Data sets can be used as inspiration. You will even get the chance to write your own plot summary for a fictional story.

With the pandemic affecting jobs and careers, what opportunities are available in governmental, nonprofit, and private industries? Join us for an online panel with our distinguished guests who will discuss their role with open data and the opportunities within their industry.