Topic: Canadian Census and other data

We will give a high level overview over the tools to analyze, process and visualize Canadian data that we developed and use regularly in our workflows: CensusMapper and the {cancensus}, {cansim}, {cmhc}, {tongfen}, {canbank} and {canpumf} R packages.

Speaker:

Jens is the founder and president of MountainMath, a Vancouver based data analytics firm that specializes in transparent and reproducible analysis of Canadian data around the intersection of demographics, housing and transportation.

Agenda:

• 7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
• 7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
• 7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups

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