On March 4, groups from around the world will celebrate Open Data Day by showcasing how they are using open data in their communities. This annual event is an opportunity to show the benefits of ...
Code for America held their 4th annual summit last week, for the first (but not the last) time in Oakland. I went down with with PlaceSpeak CEO Colleen Hardwick. Digesting the lessons of the conference ...
Here at PlaceSpeak, we’re pioneering a new kind of real-time, geo-authenticated polling. With only five weeks left to the federal election, we’re interested in finding out how Canadians are planning to vote on October 19. In ...
In the lead-up to the federal election, we’ve partnered with NEWS1130 to determine the voting intentions of citizens in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Our innovative, geo-authenticated poll has garnered some interesting new data that is ...
Last week PlaceSpeak product manager Hugh Stimson attended the Canadian Open Data Summit and the International Open Data Conference, both of which were held in Ottawa this year. One of the things I’ve come to realize ...