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OpenStreetMap Windsor-Essex (https://hackf.org/groups/osm-user-group/) will serve as a meeting place for anyone and everyone interested in cartography, data analysis, wayfinding, and more. As the group matures, we'll help to make sure

In this virtual, beginner-friendly session, Doug Sartori walks through the considerations and pitfalls of relational database design. Tune in to follow along and learn how to get started with designing

For their fist ever Hackforge event, leadership and advocacy organization Automate Canada is hosting Brent McPhail, CEO of Brave Control Solutions for a talk on “Snowflake Manufacturing.” “Snowflake Manufacturing is not about how complex

A Data Warehouse combines data from disparate sources into one repository, from which analysts can generate reports and draw conclusions. DWs are an extremely valuable tool for anyone needing to

It’s already been ten years since Hackforge became incorporated as a registered non-profit! To celebrate this amazing milestone and everything we’ve done in the past decade, all current and former

Using aerial imagery, local knowledge, and iD Editor, it is possible to update and improve OpenStreetMap right on your desktop. In this virtual session we’ll walk through how to add

Gathering data from multiple sources for storage in a single place can be challenging. Not only must the data be retrieved, it needs to be structured before it can be

Border City Data is holding a special event focused on working with these massive sets of census data. Join host and data professional Doug Sartori to walk through accessing census data

Text collections and textual analysis offer a unique and largely untapped combination for applying data mining techniques and computational analysis to generate new insights into the past. This is particularly

The Canadian government publishes climate data from thousands of individual weather stations going back decades. Unfortunately, it can be challenging to access for certain scenarios - particularly when you're interested

Are you looking to part with some old games, or hunting for some nostalgia? Perhaps you're just interested in meeting like-minded folks and playing a few casual rounds of Jet

We're now halfway through the OWASP top 10! Attend to learn about number 5 of the list: Security misconfiguration. Modern software is highly configurable, making this security threat more and