A volunteer effort to map all the food stores in Brooklyn, New York, is an example of two rising trends: citizen mapping and increasing scrutiny of urban Americans’ access to healthy food. Would be great to work on similar projects here in Canada. Read the full article here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mapping-the-food-desert
The online map can be found at http://foodcensus.org/
via my colleague Tracey over at datalibre.ca
Happy Valentine’s day all!
Why not send you MP or MPP or City Councilor A Valentine Card! Be sure to attach a little note in your email along with the card. You can find your MP here http://citizenfactory.com
Sebastien Pierre at ffunction created these (http://ffctn.com/)
Hey, all you Canadian data geeks, Statistics Canada revised its Labour Force Survey (LFS) to base it on the 2006 Census population counts. As a result, to facilitate access to the revised estimates, LFS data on CANSIM will be free of charge from January 28 to February 11. For more information, head over to
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/110128/dq110128b-eng.htm
Citizen Dan is a free, open source system available to any community and its citizens to measure and track indicators of local well being.
It can be branded and themed for local needs. It is under active development by Structured Dynamics with support from a number of innovative cities.
It is a complete turnkey environment for collecting and measuring and tracking and reporting indicators of local well being. It is a data appliance and network (DAN), specifically oriented around community indicator systems.
http://demo.citizen-dan.org/
Abstract:
Ms. Tracey P. Lauriault discusses neighbourhood scale research using Census data. She introduces the The Cybercartographic Pilot Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness created at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research and will feature community based research used to inform public policy as part of the Community Data Program (CDP) . She features maps and data about social issues in Canadian cities & metropolitan areas (e.g. Calgary, Toronto, Halton, Sault Ste. Marie, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal, & others) and focuses on the importance of local analysis and what the loss of the Long-Form Census could mean to evidence based decision making to communities in Canada’s.
