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At Toronto Open Data, we’re putting in effort to make sure we work in the open. To that end, here’s […]

Imagine trying to bake a cake without ever tasting other cakes from other bakers. You’d figure out some things on your own, but you’d probably miss out on tricks, shortcuts, and flavours that others have already mastered.

Toronto’s parking ticket dataset — 37 million records across 17 years — is one of the largest municipal enforcement datasets […]

Jinesh Dutt and Rishabh Kaushick are recent graduate Master students at Northeastern University Toronto. Under the supervision of Dr. Omar […]

Why reinvent the wheel? We have some frequent questions that were asked through our Reedit forum administered a few years […]

Improving data literacy and access “The new open data products bring value to the Public Service and residents alike, enabling […]

What is open data? How does the City of Toronto use it to improve decision-making? Learn about what open data is and how anyone, anywhere can use it to improve life in Toronto in this short animated video.

When we think about open data, we often think about government-published datasets—like transit schedules, water quality data, or demographic information.

Background: What is the civic issue campaign? In 2019, the Open Data team launched a campaign in order to help […]