Monthly Open Data Lab: Data Analysis and Visualization Competition

At the end of each month we’ll be having a low-key, friendly data analysis and visualization competition open data lab where people can come and show off their analysis and visualization skills using the featured dataset of the month.

Featured datasets for each month are:

January – Global Power Plants: (dataset available on this page)

February – The Dyadic Interstate War Dataset (found as a zip file on this page)

March – Artifacts held by a number of Ottawa museums: (dataset availabe on this page.)

Following months TBD and will be added – stay tuned!

Post Author: Jen Schellinck

Jen Schellinck is the principal of Sysabee and an adjunct professor at Carleton's Institute of Cognitive Science. She founded Sysabee in 2012 with the goal of taking analysis techniques from machine learning and systems modeling and making these available to organizations who are seeking to gain the benefits of technology supported analysis and decision making. For each project, she draws from a pool of expert consultants to create a team customized to the specific needs of the project. She is also the founding member of the Data Science Experts Group, an association of data professionals that build flexible, customized solutions for data-driven companies and organizations. She remains an active participant in academic research via Carleton’s Cognitive Modeling Lab.