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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 →

We are a group of researchers and analysts who are interested in data science and would like to use our expertise to contribute to the understanding of COVID-19 in our communities.  Looking for data… One of the challenges we encountered … Continue reading →

A posting is now open until February 8, 2019 for a Research Analyst contract position at the Durham District School Board.  The start date for this position is to be determined.  This posting can be viewed on and applied to … Continue reading →

Over the past couple of years the Data User Group and Barrie Region MISA PNC have hosted a “Researcher Coffee Break” where school board employees with research, evaluation and data related roles can connect on a teleconference to discuss current … Continue reading →

AERO has announced an upcoming Special Interest Group session “Working with Community Data Sets”.  This free event will be of interest to those who want to learn more about the approaches and development of vulnerability indices and the practical, technical … Continue reading →

If you are attending the 2014 Ontario Education Research Symposium be sure to stop by the Data User Group table that will be set up for the poster session. It will be a great opportunity to network and get feedback … Continue reading →

A second “Introduction to R – Towards Reproducible Research” workshop has been scheduled for January 9th, 2014.  The format and material covered will be the same as the December 9th workshop and is intended to provide an additional opportunity to … Continue reading →

Thank you to all those who attended yesterday’s workshop “Introduction to R – Towards Reproducible Research”.  It was a lot of material to cover but the conversations and feedback has been great.  Many of the resources that were shared yesterday … Continue reading →