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I'm working on collating as many sources of Canadian federal data into a single relational database, and exposing that data via a public API. https://api.iscan
by bradbeattie 9y ago
I'm working on collating as many sources of Canadian federal data into a single relational database, and exposing that data via a public API.
https://api.iscanadafair.ca/ https://api.iscanadafair.ca/
Given the sources of this data, I'm pretty sure I'm not even allowed to profit off of this. Not really a problem as I'd be doing this in my spare time anyway.
The data-visualization side of it (e.g. https://iscanadafair.ca/data-visualization/example-usage/ https://iscanadafair.ca/data-visualization/example-usage/) isn't my strong-suit, but it's fun to muck around in regardless.
- vijayr 9y agoI did something similar on a much smaller scale for census, bea etc (only the DB part). Here in the US, federal gov data (census, bea, bls etc) can be used in commercial products as far as I know. Might be the same in Canada, worth looking into? Great idea
- bradbeattie 9y agoYeah, I don't recall where I saw something that suggested fair use. https://lop.parl.ca/ImportantNotices-e.html#Copyrights https://lop.parl.ca/ImportantNotices-e.html#Copyrights doesn't speak directly to that issue, but it's probably easier to just cite my sources and not bother with the revenue side of things. It's more important to me that this data be freely and easily available than it is for me to turn any kind of meagre profit.
- allengeorge 9y agoThis is absolutely awesome! Makes it so much easier to source data, as opposed to trying to trawl various websites, etc. etc.
- dflock 9y agoYou should talk to these guys: https://twitter.com/CDS_GC https://twitter.com/CDS_GC