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We have received the latest datasets from Gallup.
Newest datasets

World Poll, to January 2026
COVID-19 and Wellbeing, to Q4 2025
Gallup Poll Social Series:

August: Work and Education (2001-2025)
September: Governance (2001-2025)
October: Crime (… Read more.

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AI is affecting many aspects of research and education, and qualitative research is no exception. There is a growing interest in the appropriateness and effectiveness of using AI tools in various aspects of qualitative research from transcription to… Read more.

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Author: Yeliz Baloglu Cengay

Every February, International Love Data Week invites researchers, librarians, students, and data professionals to reflect on the role data plays in our work and our world. The 2026 theme, “Where’s the Data?”, is deceptively simple. At first glance,… Read more.

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Author: Nick Field

Who owns your data? What does it tell them about you? How do you identify online disinformation? Most importantly, how do you take back control?
In celebration of Data Privacy Week (January 26-30), librarians and staff from the Gerstein Science… Read more.

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Looking for a one-stop guide for getting started with particular data-related tools that includes tutorials, workshop recordings, article and book recommendations, and more? Check out our Getting Started Guides.
For qualitative data analysis (QDA)… Read more.

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Did you know that in addition to the Map & Data Library's live workshops and past workshop recordings, we also offer a number of self-paced online courses, that you can self-enroll and take at any time using your UTORID? They are built in… Read more.

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Author: Leanne Trimble

The Map & Data Library's collection of fire insurance plans and atlases provides a wealth of information about the history of Toronto's built environment. These maps go back as far as 1880 and show details such as streets & railroads,… Read more.

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Author: Yeliz Baloglu Cengay

Researchers working with spatial data increasingly rely on authoritative basemaps, curated thematic layers and accessible climate information. Three Esri-affiliated resources—the Community Map of Canada, the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, and the… Read more.

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Did you really want to attend a Map & Data Library workshop, but it conflicted with your schedule? 
Did you attend a workshop, but wish you could go back and review one section? 
Are you someone who prefers to work through workshop… Read more.

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On Halloween, it’s easy to think of haunted houses and ghost stories, but what’s truly chilling for researchers is the sudden vanishing of data, the silence of a backup that never ran, the crash you didn’t anticipate, the repository that disappears… Read more.