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Toronto Budget “Hackathon”: Jul 20-21 | Gabe Sawhney
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Creativity and Culture are alive and well. Toronto budget mini-“hackathon” report →. Toronto Budget “Hackathon”: Jul 20-21. July 9, 2013. Part of OKFN’s Global Weekend for Spending Data. Is project of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), and is a platform for collecting, storing and analyzing government budgets and financial transactions. The weekend of July 20-21, OpenSpending is encouraging local groups to organize “data parties,”. What kind of stuff will we actually be doing? Will my skills be useful?
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Toronto budget mini-“hackathon” report | Gabe Sawhney
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Toronto Budget “Hackathon”: Jul 20-21. Murmur] at 10 →. Toronto budget mini-“hackathon” report. July 22, 2013. Check out the cool stuff we made at the Toronto budget mini-hackathon. We parsed the 2012 city budget from a messy bunch of Excel files. And uploaded it to OpenSpending. 8212; which produces this interactive treemap. We also got the data into Tableau, and produced this less colourful but more readable treemap. We slogged through an XML snapshot from the city’s Lobbyist Registry data. All of us g...
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Uncategorized | The Awesome Foundation - Toronto
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1,000 In cash. In a paper bag. To do something awesome. … That's it. The Awesome Foundation – Toronto. RSS feed for this section. March’s Awesome Idea: The Ouch! This month’s Awesome project was The Ouch! Package from Andrew Bacchus, manager of Bikechain. Each package (a few dozen are to be crafted) contains:. Assortment of fair trade teas. Assortment of fair-trade chocolate. One tube of Polysporin. Small travel pack of Tylenol/ Advil (maybe). Project. We’ll share that here when it’s done! We Asked Nikki...
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martinryan14 | The Awesome Foundation - Toronto
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1,000 In cash. In a paper bag. To do something awesome. … That's it. The Awesome Foundation – Toronto. To apply please submit a grant request with the project title: Trustee Application, and please tell us a bit about yourself and why you are interested in joining. We look forward to hearing from you! The Toronto Awesome Foundation. March 2014 Awesome Grant goes to “The Patchwork Picnic”. 1 Tell us about your project? 2 What makes it awesome – in one sentence? 3 What inspired/motivated you to do this?
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Councillor Shelley Carroll | All Fired Up In The Big Smoke
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All Fired Up In The Big Smoke. Municipal politics. Like it matters. December 20, 2015. Here’s the original, less gooder edited version of the 2016 budget launch post. I wrote for the Torontoist earlier this week. To the Torontoist’s work this week. This can’t happen over the long run without help from readers and everyone else who wants to truly be in the know about the city they live and go about their business in. So do yourself a favour. Contribute now. In what’s being referred to this year as a Preli...
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Open Data Day Toronto 2015 #ODDTO15 - Make Web Not War
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Make Web Not War. Open Data Day Toronto 2015 #ODDTO15. February 12, 2015. A year ago, Toronto celebrated Open Data Day with a weekend of activities. Bringing together over 400 people from government, private sector, and citizens. Our goal was to show citizens how open data can make our world a better place — solving problems presented by advocacy groups including Better Budget TO. Affordable Housing, Cycle Toronto. Education at West Humber Collegiate Institute. And Canadian Abilities Foundation. Open Dat...
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