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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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.
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In Canada, data is often framed as a neutral resource—a tool governments use to guide policy and measure progress. Yet, when it comes to Indigenous communities, the ways in which information has historically been gathered, stored, and interpreted… Read more.
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We're excited to announce two guides from U of T Libraries designed to support researchers with their research data management (RDM) needs.
The Research Data Management Guide offers comprehensive resources and best practices to support you and your… Read more.
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In honour of LGBT History month, it is important to recognize that although looking at the data can tell you a lot about history, that understanding is only as good as the data it relies on. Historically, many marginalized groups were excluded from… Read more.
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November is going to be a busy month for data visualization! I'm offering a number of introductory workshops on Gephi, Tableau, Infographics, and new for this term, Power BI.
First up we have Gephi. Gephi is a free, open-source, point-and-click tool… Read more.
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The Map & Data Library is running a series of GIS workshops throughout the semester. Learn the basics, get into spatial analysis, or explore how to create beatiful online stories with maps!
MDL workshop offerings
Our longstanding series of… Read more.
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Did you know that the Map & Data Library provides extensive support for a qualitative data analysis tool called NVivo?
NVivo is an well-known qualitative data analysis tool that's been around since 1997! It supports all the stages of a… Read more.