Civic Hacknight #476: From Bacteria to Bikes – Quantitative Cycling Research in Toronto
We missed you this time around!
Topic: From Bacteria to Bikes – Quantitative Cycling Research in Toronto
After a PhD in biophysics, Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher turned her hobby into her job as a data scientist quantifying the impacts of cycling infrastructure in Canadian cities. Join her to discuss advocacy, citizen science, and the latest research on cycling in Toronto.
Speaker:
Dr. Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher is a Data Sciences Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto studying how safe cycling networks influence the destinations people can access by bicycle in Canadian cities.
She is a co-founder of UofT Coders, a group for graduate students to teach each other programming skills in a supportive peer environment.
You can find her on Bluesky at @mbonsma.bsky.social or riding around Toronto with her family on her beloved cargo bikes.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!
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We missed you this time around!
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Torc is a community-first platform bringing together remote-first software engineer and developer opportunities from across the globe. Join a network that’s all about connection, collaboration, and finding your next big move — together.
Join our community today!
Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin your app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
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Civic Hacknight #476: From Bacteria to Bikes – Quantitative Cycling Research in Toronto
Topic: From Bacteria to Bikes – Quantitative Cycling Research in Toronto
After a PhD in biophysics, Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher turned her hobby into her job as a data scientist quantifying the impacts of cycling infrastructure in Canadian cities. Join her to discuss advocacy, citizen science, and the latest research on cycling in Toronto.
Speaker:
Dr. Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher is a Data Sciences Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto studying how safe cycling networks influence the destinations people can access by bicycle in Canadian cities.
She is a co-founder of UofT Coders, a group for graduate students to teach each other programming skills in a supportive peer environment.
You can find her on Bluesky at @mbonsma.bsky.social or riding around Toronto with her family on her beloved cargo bikes.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct:
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:
https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!
For more info:
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