It’s good see some government agencies open up their data – sort of – even if it is PDF data, I suppose its a start. Recently in B.C, Canada, the BC Liberal party held an election for a new leader to take the helm and step in as the Premier of the Province to fill a vacancy left by the current leader who has decided to step down. It was interesting to see that data from the election was promptly released over the web (as downloadable PDF files) see here for raw data. What was cool was stumbling onto a map published on the Vancouver Sun website that served up these data using the GeoCommons GeoIQ service. Even though the data really isn’t terribly exciting, particularly when shown on a map, it’s a nice start to see these data made publicly available and viewable in such a timely manner… nice!Note, the maps were also complemented by appealing tabular data and graphics created and shared via Tableau
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