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Big fan of environmental sustainability and most recently a data science enthusiast. Also obsessed with skating.

Joined July 2012
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An open data maturity scale for cities to find right-sized solutions sunlightfoundation.com/2019/…
Thank you so much to 2018 PODS fellow Emily Xing and @breather for hosting us at your office! The fellows loved hearing advice about entering the workforce, learning about Breather, and snacking on pizza! 🍕
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Discover the 2019 @PodsProgram! This year, eleven @mcgillu undergraduate students were selected to undergo an intensive #policy-oriented data science bootcamp & apply their skills in internships around #montreal. #tacklingcomplexity @McGillARTS @McGill_VPRI @McGillScience
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PODS had an incredible visit at @bdc_ca! The fellows were very lucky to meet with Thomas Park, Vice President, Operations & Strategy, to discuss the rapidly evolving fields of policy and data. We are immensely grateful for all of Tom's and BDC's generosity and support for PODS!
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Fantastic visit at the newly renovated @IRPP office yesterday! Thank you to the Institute for Research on Public Policy for a great time! Special thank you to @mohytabbara for discussing the Canadian policy landscape, think tanks, and grad school with the PODS students 🌐
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Meet Martin Law: PODS Fellow with a passion for new urbanism, sustainability, and skateboarding! He's interning at @OpenNorth, analyzing open geospatial metadata to evaluate performance measurement of urban transit More: tinyurl.com/y53ezukv #DataScience #Policy #RStats
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@fccihk HongKongEcho: Hong Kong’s iconic skyline may also be its greatest environmental threat fccihk.com/blog/2019/07/hong…
PODS Students had an amazing visit at Precision Analytics yesterday! Thank you so much to Erika Braithwaite and Kathryn Morrison, Co-Founders of @prec_analytics, for such an engaging discussion and providing valuable and relevant insights to the cohort! 🙌
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Thank you to Tim, Laura, Reda, and Jean-Robert from @Concord_AI for talking with the PODS students about their great initiative and the Mtl data ecosystem! Huge thank you to the @notman House for generously hosting us in the gorgeous @Cisco room! We loved it!
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Today, PODS students presented on different ways to merge data frames - inner, outer, full, anti, and semi joins!
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i <3 creme glace !!!
PODS students are doing important data work with ice cream. What flavours do you think they got today?
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Spoke with the @PodsProgram students yesterday - what a great bunch of Social Science undergrads!! Thanks @markdaku for setting up the meeting! If you had some advice or career paths for #data4good with #DataScience, what would it be? #rstats #Python #podsprogram
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Just learnt how to create waffle charts using this #TidyTuesday 's bird count data, specifically proportion of sparrows counted by year. Bonus step plot included for more temporal detail @PodsProgram #R4DS #RStat
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but was unable to ggarrange the animation with the waffles :(
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The Policy and Data Science Students were exceptionally lucky to visit @BCF_Avocats_Law and discuss #privacy law with Dr. Danielle Miller Olofsson, the Chief Privacy and Knowledge Officer at BCF! Thank you so much to Danielle and BCF for their continued support of PODS!
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Taking a big ol' L this #TidyTuesday :( Inspired by @Cristobal_Montt and @JustTheSpring 's code. Just learnt how to make maps in R, but was unable to connect the coordinate points to the map correctly. Gotta work on it! @PodsProgram #R4DS #Rstats #orthographicProjection
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Stoked to be at the BCF today w/ my @PodsProgram fellows!! Learnt a lot about Canadian information privacy laws and had gr8 discussions!! #penthouselife #selfiemode #followtheadventure
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