Digital literacy goes beyond data management, statistics, and visualization - it drives the impact investment movement, social media for good efforts, and collective evaluation and evidence-based decision making efforts!
Read Lucy Bernholz's article on Digital Literacy here: Digital Literacy: A Core Capacity for 21st Century Nonprofits
Ed Manley, an urban researcher in the UK, decided to take open data from Winnipeg and make dot density maps. One shows variation in ethnicity, one shows linguistic variation, and another shows income disparity.
This year's Annual Meeting was held in Kingston. It was a wonderful event with lots of discussion and ideas! Thank you to those who joined online!
Read the report for an outline of the Annual Meeting, including discussions and actions arising from the meeting: Annual Meeting Report 2017
The average hourly wage paid to full-time payroll employees in 2016 was $27.70, excluding overtime pay, tips, and incentive and performance pay. Wages varied notably across occupations and geographic regions. The data are drawn from the new wage component of the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey (JVWS), which provides wage information by both detailed occupation and economic region on an annual basis.
A glimpse at sales and service:
If you are in Winnipeg, MB, on June 12-13, 2017... join the 2017 CIC Community Indicators Symposium.
The focus is on Engaging Values / Effective Methods: Rooting Indicators in Community Aspirations.
The symposium is organized as follow:
Data Power 2017 is a two-day, international conference organized by Carleton and Sheffield universities. It follows the successful 2015 conference, held in the UK. The conference focuses on critical questions about data’s power, reflecting on the social and cultural consequences of data becoming increasingly pervasive in our lives.
Here's a new report from HUMA on poverty! The HUMA committee is the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.
The committee reports to the House of Commons on the following matters:
Now there's a video series that captures the highlights of Transform the Sector 2017! The series includes a conference summary video as well as videos on open data and funders, administrative data, data capacity and data ethics. The videos are short summaries of the key points covered by the speakers and provide insight into each topic!
From Statistics Canada:
The study is based on data from the Intergenerational Income Database, an administrative database that links children to parents using information on family structure at the time the children were 16 to 19 years of age. It also contains information on the income of children and their parents, from 1978 to 2014.
Miss out on any of the webinars hosted by Environics Analytics? You can view the event recording and download the presentation here: http://www.environicsanalytics.ca/footer/webcasts
EA's webcasts: