CARTE 2024 Student Networking Event
Attention University of Toronto students: Join us for an in-person networking event to learn from your peers about opportunities to get involved in Analytics/Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning research projects. Confirmed speakers include: Kelly Schultz, Data Librarian at UofT’s Map and Data Library Ishrath Mohamed Irshadeen, Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow at UofT […]
Civic Tech Toronto @ CARTE: Civic Hacknight #463: Canadian Census and other data
Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship 55 St George St., Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTopic: Canadian Census and other data We will give a high level overview over the tools to analyze, process and visualize Canadian data that we developed and use regularly in our workflows: CensusMapper and the {cancensus}, {cansim}, {cmhc}, {tongfen}, {canbank} and {canpumf} R packages. Speaker: Jens is the founder and president of MountainMath, a Vancouver […]
Civic Tech Toronto @ CARTE Civic Hacknight #464: Learning to Work with Dark Data
Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship 55 St George St., Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTopic: The Uncounted and the Unseen: Learning to Work with Dark Data Good policy starts with good data, and although we live in an increasingly data-rich era, the world of dark data is also growing. We know too little about global mortality, which inhibits healthcare interventions; similarly, we struggle to estimate the number of unhoused […]
Civic Tech Toronto @ CARTE Civic Hacknight #465: Stop Parking in Bike Lanes
Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship 55 St George St., Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTopic: Stop Parking in Bike Lanes - a Bike Lane Uprising Story Learn how to report bike lane obstructions with Bike Lane Uprising's mobile app. Hear firsthand how we got started and what we've been able to do to make biking safer. Speaker: After starting as a passion project, Bike Lane Uprising® spread via word […]
Civic Tech @ CARTE: Civic Hacknight #466: Building VoteInformer
Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation & Entrepreneurship 55 St George St., Toronto, Ontario, CanadaTopic: Building VoteInformer: Empowering Civic Engagement & Shaping an Informed Electorate We will talk a little bit about who we are as Baye Labs and what our aspirations for VoteInformer are. We will also run a quick demo and hope for feedback, no matter how harsh. We are in early stages. Speaker: Blair Ellis and […]