The open data community in Ottawa has grown significantly over the past several years. To continue to support the growing community, Open Data Ottawa is again organizing an event to celebrate International Open Data Day.

Where: 150 Elgin, Shopify, 6th flr

When: Saturday, March 5, 2016 - 1:30pm - 4:30pm

More: Visit our meetup page to learn more and register

This event is slightly different than those we’ve organized in the past. There will be a series of short presentation from different members of the open data community, followed by casual networking and discussions about open data.

Are you new to open data? This is the perfect opportunity to learn about what open data is, get a better understanding of what types of open data are available, and learn about different ways it’s being used by members of our community.

We hope you’ll join us to celebrate #opendataday!

The schedule of events will be posted on our meetup page.

A special thanks to Shopify for providing the venue for this event.

OpenCorporates & OpenData.ch

Sunday, 24 May 2015 from 12:30 to 18:00 (EDT)

Maker Space North
250 City Centre, Bay 216 Ottawa, Canada, ON K1R 6K7

Click here for more information and to register!

Come and join us for a day of mapping the corporate network of the largest public companies in Canada and releasing this as open data. We’ll be looking over company filings by picking subsidiaries to find hierarchy information. By the end of the event, we’ll have a rich open dataset and a visualization that displays the complex network like this: https://opencorporates.com/companies/nz/384327/network [click on Update as a Network]

We’ll be picking a few companies from the top 10 of largest public companies in Canada:Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Montreal, Imperial Oil, CIBC, Suncor Energy, BCE Inc, Canadian National Railway and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan.

What do you need to bring? Drop in with your laptop, charger and enthusiasm. This event is a part of the Map the Banks campaign by OpenCorporates & partners such as Open North to liberate all financial licenses so we can map what the global financial industry looks like. Find out more here: mapthebanks.com

12.30 - 1.30: Pizza & introduction
1.30 - 5.30: Map-a-thon
5.30 - 6: Drinks & review of the day

If you can’t join in person, you can join us virtually. We’ll be using Slack to stay in touch! You’ll get an invite once you register.

Thanks to Maker Space North for sponsoring the event by kindly offering the space!

Do you have research data that you’re not sure what to do with? Do you have research data that you want to share and explore?

#HackCongress is a free event taking place on June 1st, 2015 at uOttawa.

This non-competitive Hackfest invites participants to explore or “hack” research data provided by invited digital humanities (DH) researchers. It will show what can be accomplished when research data is opened up for collaboration. Participants will enhance their skills and learn to use new tools to visualize data and work with digital assets. The event will also be an opportunity to meet other scholars from diverse fields and to learn about emerging common practices in DH. This full day event on June 1st will be punctuated by 30 to 60 minute presentations of research projects and workshops on tools available for use by participants. In addition to the research data made available by selected DH researchers, a list of open data sources and tools will be provided. Check back on this space as our program develops.

Experienced and novice hackers are welcome! No prior knowledge of DH techniques or tools is required, but curiosity and a desire to collaborate are essential!

To learn more and register, visit:

http://congress2015.ca/program/events/hackcongress-bring-your-own-data

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21 February 2015

The open data community in Ottawa has grown significantly over the past several years. To continue to support the growing community, Open Data Ottawa has partnered with the University of Ottawa Library, the Treasury Board Secretariat, and other engaged community members to offer a space for those interested in collaborating on and learning about open data. Thanks to the generous contribution of Industry Canada, the weekend-long event will be at the Industry Canada Service Lab, located in the C.D. Howe Building at 235 Queen Street.

The location will function as a multi-purpose space. Part of the space at the Innovation Lab will be reserved for folks participating in CODE. If you would like to use this space to work on your project for the CODE competition, there is a separate registration form on the CODE website. Note that our HUB will be open for you to use starting on Friday night, while general festivities start on Saturday morning.

The remainder of the space is available for those who wish to come and learn about open data, benefit from the support of mentors and experts, and participate in mini workshops that will be scheduled throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday.

Never worked with open data before? Not sure what it means to “hack”? This is the perfect opportunity to learn how you can manipulate data to create infographics, maps, and even applications. Mentors will be on hand to show you how to find interesting open data and shape it into whatever you’d like it to be.

Whether you’d like to spend the whole weekend, a whole day, or just a few hours, join us at the Service Lab in downtown Ottawa to celebrate #opendataday!

Schedule of events:
**workshop times TBD**

Saturday  
10:00 - What is my data trying to say?
11:00 - Open Refine
13:00 - Google Fusion Tables
14:00 - TimeMapper
15:00 - Infographics

Sunday 
How to consume an API
d3.js

Event hours:

Official festivities kick off at exactly 9am on Saturday morning, with workshops starting at 10am. Venue hours and a full workshop schedule will be posted soon.

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21 février 2015

La communauté des données ouvertes d'Ottawa a beaucoup grandi ces dernières années. Pour continuer de soutenir cette communauté en plein développement, Données ouvertes Ottawa travaille en collaboration avec la Bibliothèque de l'Université d'Ottawa, le Secrétariat du Conseil du Trésor et d'autres membres actifs de la communauté pour offrir un espace à ceux qui s’intéressent aux données ouvertes. Grâce à la généreuse contribution d'Industrie Canada, l'événement aura lieu au Labo de Service, situé dans l'Édifice C.D.-Howe au 235 rue Queen.

Le centre Données ouvertes Ottawa fonctionnera comme un espace polyvalent. Une partie de l'espace du Labo de Service sera réservé aux participants à l’EDOC. Si vous voulez utiliser l’espace pour travailler sur votre projet pour la concurrence de l’EDOC, inscrivez-vous en utilisant le formulaire sur ce site web de l’EDOC. Notez que l’espace sera à votre disposition du vendredi soir à dimanche soir.

Le reste de l'espace sera réservé à ceux qui souhaiteraient en apprendre davantage sur les données ouvertes, bénéficier de l'assistance des mentors et des experts, et participer aux ateliers qui seront offerts toute la journée du samedi.

Vous n'avez jamais utilisé de données ouvertes ? Vous ne savez pas ce que veut dire le verbe « hacker » ? Voici l'occasion rêvée d'apprendre à manipuler des données pour créer des images, des cartes et même des applications. Des mentors sur place vous montreront comment trouver et traiter des données ouvertes intéressantes pour les transformer à votre guise.

Rejoignez-nous toute la fin de semaine, toute une journée ou quelques heures, du 20 au 22 février au Laboratoire, dans le centre-ville d'Ottawa, pour célébrer la journée internationale des données ouvertes!

Programme des événements:

Samedi
10h00 - What is my data trying to say?
11h00 - Open Refine
13h00 - Google Fusion Tables
14h00 - TimeMapper
15h00 - Infographics

Dimanche
How to consume an API
d3.js

Heures d'ouverture:

Des festivités commenceront à 9h le samedi matin et des ateliers débuteront à 10h. Les heures d'ouverture officielles seront bientôt disponibles.

Early-bird registration for the Canadian Open Data Summit 2015 is now open! 

The Canadian Open Data Summit is the annual event where the most pressing challenges facing the open data community are addressed on a national scale. Join us to share best practices and local experiences, to learn from top international experts, and to work on growing the community strategically and collaboratively.

Click here to learn more and register.

We had another great meetup earlier this month at Shopify, with a number of great presentations:

• Rob Davidson tried to predict the recent Ottawa Election using social data from Twitter. He has a very nicely presented presentation here.
• Denis Carriere cleaned, crunched, and mapped out the Construction Permits data. Go take a look.
• Trent Baur took the Swimming and Skating schedules made available by the city and made them accessible to the masses with two easy to use sites. Check out OttawaSwimming.com and OttawaSkating.com.

Open Data Book Club is a monthly event aimed at exploring open datasets that relate to the National Capital Region. If you are into open data, data journalism, statistics, data visualizations, or civic technology, join us on Wednesday, January 7th. Register here.

Cody’s Cafe (Shopify)
150 Elgin St
6th Floor
Ottawa, ON
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Come hang out with fellow data-ists, hack on some data, and enjoy a set of short presentations related to the Construction, Demolition and Pool Enclosure Permit Data, the dataset the group decided to work on for January. This dataset contains some surprisingly interesting information related to the locations and values of the construction/demolition/pool enclosure permits that are issued by the city.

Interested in presenting something? We’d love to see what you can come up with. Please let us know so that we can make sure to set aside a bit of time for you!

Your presentation does not need to focus on the current month’s dataset. Past projects you’ve done are also welcome, we just ask you to make sure that it’s related to Open Data in the National Capital Region.

Hope to see you on Wednesday!

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What is CODE?
CODE is a 48-hour appathon, inviting developers, graphic designers, students, and anyone interested at trying their hand at coding to use Government of Canada Open Data found through the search data feature on this site. You are encouraged to mash-up federal datasets as well as include provincial, territorial, and municipal data when building your apps.

What are the 2015 categories?
There are three categories this year: Youth, Commerce, and Quality of life.

Plus, right before the appathon begins, the specific category themes will be announced.

Leading up to the appathon, feel free to explore our open data portal where you will find tons of possibilities for great applications with very relevant datasets. You should also check out Open Government across Canada and see what datasets are available from the provinces, territories and municipalities.

Why should I participate?
Winners will share $40,000 in prizes.

Grand Prize: $15,000
Youth Category Winner: $5,000
Commerce Category Winner: $5,000
Quality of Life Category Winner: $5,000
Best Student Team: $5,000
Fan Favourite: $5,000

Where will CODE 2015 take place?
You can take part from one of three VIP Hubs in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, a Partner Hub (locations to be determined), or from anywhere really (homes, schools, or local coffee shops). Register to participate now, and receive updates as hub locations are confirmed.

When is this happening?
CODE 2015 will start on February 20th at 6pm and will continue for 48 hours (the same weekend as International Open Data Day)!

Come hang out with fellow dataists, hack on some data, and enjoy a set of short presentations on the recent Municipal Election Data, the dataset the group has elected to work on for December.

Interested in presenting something? We’d love to see what you can come up with. Everybody is given a short time-slot to present. Mash up the data with another dataset, or compare the data with all the other Ontario elections that happened in October.

Your presentation need not focus on the current month’s dataset. Past projects you’ve done are also welcome, we just ask you keep it Open Data related.

RSVP to this month’s book club here!

Aquahacking is inviting Ottawa’s developer and hacker community along with environmental experts to join them at HUB Ottawa on Wednesday, November 12 at 6:30pm for Aqua Hacking’s first café. Come discover the issues behind water management and start thinking about how you’d like to get involved in the AquaHacking event which will take place in May 2015.

Aquahacking 2015 - Ottawa River Summit is an unprecedented event committed to the future of the Ottawa River and of fresh water in general.

At the heart of the summit, Canada’s very first AquaHacking event will concentrate on developing innovative technological solutions to address the challenges of sustainable development raised by the management of our water.

This is an opportunity for technology wizards like hackers, designers and developers to put their talents to work.

Mark your calendars:

When: November 12, 2014

Where: HUB Ottawa, 71 Bank Street, 6th Floor, Ottawa ON K2P 5N2

Agenda:
6:30 PM - Networking
7:00 PM - Introductions
Luc Sirois, Hacking Health
Dominique Monchamp, Fondation de Gaspé Beaubien
Katherine Adams, AquaHacking- Ottawa River Summit
Meredith Brown, Ottawa Riverkeeper
Marilou Brouillet – Réseau Environnement Outaouais
7:30 PM - What is AquaHacking 2015?
7:45 PM - Water protection challenges in the Ottawa River
8:00 PM - How can technology help with these challenges?
8:30 PM - Closing statement and networking
9:30 PM - Doors Close

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Aquahacking invite les communautés de développeurs et de hackers ainsi que les experts en environnement de la région d’Ottawa-Gatineau à se joindre à nous pour le tout premier Café AquaHacking! Le mercredi 12 novembre à 18h30 à HUB Ottawa, venez découvrir les défis de la gestion de l’eau et réfléchir à comment vous impliquer dès maintenant en vue de l’évènement AquaHaking qui se tiendra en mai prochain.

Aquahacking 2015 - Sommet Rivière des Outaouais est un événement sans précédent, qui vise à s’engager pour l'avenir de la rivière des Outaouais et de l’eau douce en général.

Au coeur du sommet, le tout premier AquaHacking jamais organisé au Canada favorisera l’émergence d’innovations et de solutions technologiques aux problématiques de développement durable soulevées par la gestion de notre eau.

C’est l’occasion pour tous les magiciens de technologie – hackers, designers et développeurs – de mettre vos talents à contribution.

À vos calendriers :

Quand: 12 Novembre 2014

Où: HUB Ottawa, 71 Bank Street, 6ème étage, Ottawa (ON) K2P 5N2

Programme:
18:30 - Réseautage
19:00 Introductions
Luc Sirois, Hacking Health
Dominique Monchamp, Fondation de Gaspé Beaubien
Katherine Adams, AquaHacking - Sommet rivière des Outaouais
Meredith Brown, Sentinelle Outaouais
Marilou Brouillet , Réseau Environnement Outaouais
19:30 - Qu’est-ce qu’Aquahacking 2015 ?
19:45 - Les défis de la protection de l’eau, Rivière des Outaouais
20:00 - Comment la technologie peut-elle aider pour ces défis?
20:30 - Clôture et réseautage
21:30 - Fermeture de portes