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Toronto Open Data Awards 2024
Thank you for all the contributors. We will be assessing all submissions within the next couple months and coming out […]
Announcing the Toronto Open Data Awards
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of Toronto’s Open Data program, we’re launching the Toronto Open Data Awards!
Data Stories
A Decade of Progress on City-Owned Buildings and Facilities
This post explores the trends in renewable energy installations on City-owned buildings and facilities in Toronto over the past decade.
UrbanToronto: Seeing the Future of the City with Data
A great example, partnership and arguably a great use-case of how open data is used in big Cities. One of […]
Tools & Training
3 Questions…
Why reinvent the wheel? We have some frequent questions that were asked through our Reedit forum administered a few years […]
What the @#%! is a Shapefile?
A beginner’s guide to common and not-so-common open data file formats!
Video & Multimedia
Explaining Open Data in Toronto
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.
Civic Issues
Analyzing results from the civic issues campaign survey
Background: What is the civic issue campaign? In 2019, the Open Data team launched a campaign in order to help […]
Powering open data with civic issues
In a city run by data (petabytes of it!), how do dataset requests get prioritized? Reham Youssef from the open data team discusses exciting changes coming soon to the way open data releases are prioritized, inspired by important civic issues.