Open Source Software Library

Statistics Canada releases open-source tools and R/Python packages for statistical analysis and data dissemination. Their tools include the Canadian Statistical Dissemination Architecture (CSDA), open microdata tools, and visualization packages used by researchers across Canada.

Open-source software project maintained in a public source repository.

Open-source monitoring project maintained in a public source repository.

A civic information platform and API for identifying elected representatives and electoral districts in Canada.

An open specification for structuring data about people, organizations, elections, and public decision-making.

A set of open components for building civic participation and public-information services.

An embedded analytical SQL database optimized for local data analysis.

A data exploration and business intelligence platform for dashboards and interactive analysis.

A business intelligence application for querying data and creating dashboards without extensive coding.

A visualization and dashboard platform for metrics, logs, traces, and operational data.

A monitoring and alerting system based on time-series metrics and powerful queries.

A horizontally scalable log aggregation system designed to integrate with Grafana.

A distributed search and analytics suite for applications, logs, and observability data.

A distributed search and analytics engine for text, structured data, and logs.

A privacy-respecting web analytics platform that can be self-hosted.

A lightweight privacy-focused website analytics platform.

A simple privacy-focused web analytics application for self-hosted deployments.

A desktop tool for cleaning, transforming, reconciling, and exploring messy data.

A visual data science platform for building analytics and machine-learning workflows.

A visual programming environment for data analysis, machine learning, and teaching.

An interactive development environment for notebooks, code, data, and scientific workflows.

An integrated development environment for R and data science workflows.

A statistical analysis application designed as an open alternative to proprietary statistics packages.

A user-friendly statistical analysis application built on the R language.

Example Go project from the Canada School of Public Service for scraping federal collective-agreement pay data.

Canadian meteorological data-pumping and subscription system for reliable real-time data distribution.

Statistics Canada platform for centralizing, processing, cleaning, and tabulating data.

City of Montréal CKAN extension supporting municipal open-data catalogue functionality.

City of Sault Ste. Marie utility for parsing Municipal Property Assessment Corporation year-end tax files.

Alberta government CKAN extension used to define metadata schemas for the provincial open-data catalogue.

CKAN extension developed for Alberta’s open-data publishing platform.

Government of British Columbia CKAN extension used by the BC Data Catalogue.

Open legal-data initiative providing programmatic access to Canadian court decisions and statutes for research and access-to-justice tools.