Science data is available at your fingertips. Here’s a way to ingest it into your Akka/Scala projects. — ERDDAP is a tool produced by the NOAA to provide scientific data sets in extensible formats for broad public use. If you have ever worked with scientific data before, you know that it is enormously challenging to work with because the data formats are built for very specific scientific uses…

It’s got to be an 7/10 for me to want it in my life, from now on. One positive side-effect of social distancing for me has been some modest weight loss based on a few principles. For one, as the “chef” in the family, I have decided we should move…

Everything is just… sales. Everything is just… marketing. Everything can be resolved by… empathy. Hustle. Emotional intelligence. Branding. Discipline. Attention to detail. Leadership. Community. Productivity. Quality. Design thinking. Rigor. Learning from failure. Continuous learning. Planning. Team building. It seems like “everything” can be distilled down to quite a few things…

What a privilege it has been to be part of the Technovation Girls program at the University of Waterloo for the past two years! Every time I mention that I am a mentor for the program, I do so with a little bit of guilt because I gain so much…

Our Archives Unleashed Cloud users have given us consistent feedback: “getting network, domain and text data from Archive-It is nice, but what can we do with it?” But there is a Catch 22: if you do not know what kind of research is possible with web archives, how can you…

In the summer of 2017, a team of graduate student researchers at the University of Waterloo explored various WALK collections and wrote short posts on what they learned from them. Here is the third of three posts. By Denée Renouf Which comes first, the question or the answer? In the…

In the summer of 2017, a team of graduate student researchers at the University of Waterloo explored various WALK collections and wrote short posts on what they learned from them. Here is the second of three posts. by Eric Vero At first, navigating archived website collections may seem daunting. Many…

In the summer of 2017, a team of graduate student researchers at the University of Waterloo explored various WALK collections and wrote short posts on what they learned from them. Here is the first of three posts. by Sarah McTavish One of the most substantial developments in the use of…

Canadians were early adopters of the Internet, a fact that is overshadowed because our neighbours to the south were even more avid. In 1995, a year before the Internet Archive started, as many as 3.5 million Canadians used the Internet, a population about the size of Toronto and greater than…