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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.
How the City is Winning the War Against Lead Contamination in Drinking Water
Back in 2011, Toronto’s City Council took action by approving a strategy to reduce lead in our drinking water. Fast forward to 2014, and the City began to take action. Read on for more analysis.
Exploring Equity in Child Care: A Data-Driven Analysis of Access and Demand
This post explores issues of equity, access, and demand surrounding licensed child care spaces
throughout Toronto’s 25 wards.
Disease Outbreak Concerns in Toronto’s Long-Term Care Homes
Following the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 pandemic proclamation in 2020, 81% of deaths from COVID-19 in Canada occurred among long-term care residents. Since Toronto recently experienced high influenza and COVID-19 activity, it is critical to evaluate disease outbreaks in Toronto healthcare facilities.
Measuring Sound from the Bedroom Window
In this captivating blog post, Ingrid, a local resident, shares her personal journey of uncovering the impact of noise pollution on her life and her quest to better understand and quantify its effects.
Towards a Data Quality Score in open data (Part 2)
In my first story on Open Data Toronto’s Data Quality Score (DQS), I shared why data quality matters to us and what the DQS is at a high-level; in this story, I walk through the steps of exactly how we created it so it is more detailed and a little more technical. Read on if that’s your jam.
Towards a Data Quality Score in Open Data
Traditionally, Open Data Toronto program performance has been tied to the number of datasets in the catalogue. Today, however, catalogue size is less relevant primarily because it fails to measure progress towards the program’s vision of enabling anyone, anywhere, to improve life in Toronto with open data. To solve this issue, we created a score to assess data quality and what it measures.
Analyzing Lobbyist Data
The Office of the Lobbyist Registrar ensures the public disclosure of lobbying activities and oversees the regulation of lobbyists’ conduct. The City of Toronto publishes this data through the Lobbyist Registry Disclosure Site and through the Open Data Portal.