Publicly available data shared by multiple levels of governments across the world are hosted in various open data portals. But even though most of this data is meant to be yours to take for your own uses, it can be surprisingly hard to find data portals and the datasets they contain aren’t always indexed in search engines. Learn to locate and navigate open data portals and practice with an exercise, all in under 30 minutes.

About your presenter: Julie Marcoux is a data librarian based at the Killam Library who enjoys helping students, faculty, and researchers navigate the confusing world of datasets and statistics in order to find the data they need for their projects. She occasionally uses a bit of programming skills on projects such as creating an Excel file (with a menu with buttons that work!) for use in teaching advanced Excel functions.

About Love Data week: Check out the Love Data Week research guide (https://dal.ca.libguides.com/lovedata) for additional online events hosted by Dalhousie or by other institutions in Atlantic Canada and beyond! Check back often for new additions!

And don't miss Show yourself some love: using OrcID to manage data about you (https://dal.libcal.com/calendar/events/orcid) and How I learned to stop worrying and love Dal's new Active Data Storage Services (https://dal.libcal.com/calendar/events/activedatastorage), two presentations available exclusively to the Dalhousie community.

This session will be held online in Teams - link provided in the email you will receive after you register.