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CBC news article comments web scraping

This post is focuses on a project where I scaped comments from CBC News website articles. (BTW, there are lots of “CBC’s” in the world. The one I am referring to is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.) There is another post that focuses on analysis and visualization of the scraped data. As a Canadian often travelling […]

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Canadian Government First Nations long term water advisory data

The Government of Canada is working with Canadian First Nations communities to end long-term drinking water advisories which have been in effect for more than 12 months since November 2015. This includes projects to build or renew drinking water infrastructure in these communities. The First Nation drinking water advisories were a big part of the

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Heat maps of Canadian activity changes due to COVID-19 using Google Community Mobility Reports

During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Canada I wanted to get better understanding of the geographical distribution of COVID-19 related activity changes across Canada. Google has helpfully provided freely available global “Community Mobility Reporting” which shows Google location history change compared to baseline by country, and country sub-regions. These provide changes in activity by location

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