Author Archives: cconley

The Durham District School Board currently has a position posted: Role: Research AnalystPosting: details available hereDeadline for submission: October 12, 2021Description: It is anticipated that the successful candidate will be a key staff person in the administration and analysis of … Continue reading →

The Toronto Catholic District School Board currently has a position posted: Role: Research AssociatePosting: details available hereDeadline for submission: September 10, 2021 Qualifications sought include: Education in Social Science (Psychology/Sociology) Minimum 2 years of experience in research and development, advanced … Continue reading →

The York Region District School Board currently has a position posted in their Research Services Department: Role: Research Manager Posting details available here Deadline for submission: August 13, 2020 Qualifications sought include: Education in the field of Education or a … Continue reading →

The Peel District School Board currently has a position posted in their Assessment and Accountability Department: Role: Research Officer Posting details avaliable here Deadline for submission:  August 13, 2020 Qualifications sought include: Education in the fields of Education, Social Science or … Continue reading →

Following are a few updates of visualizations that were presented last week: Exploring the shape of distributions of regionally reported cases: Daily reported cases by region over time using a static scale: Animation of cumulative daily reported cases by region:

The Data User Group continues to track and analyze the growth of the pandemic in Ontario.  The following animated visualization designed by @GregRousell depicts the increase in Total Cases, Confirmed Cases, Resolved Cases and Deaths in Ontario:

The same data can be viewed in a variety of ways to support different reflections and discussions. This histogram of the regional distributions of daily reported cases of COVID19 helps you appreciate the volume of cases that the Toronto and … Continue reading →

Updated with Public Health Unit Labels Original post with PHU’s labelled by Municipal location: The animated data visualization above was produced in R using the ggplot2 and gganimate packages with open source data from data.ontario.ca.  Data is current up to … Continue reading →

One of the challenges to understanding the spread of COVID19 data is the availability of data.  Each day, members of the Data User Group have been updating a CSV file on our Github and a shared Google Sheet with information … Continue reading →