Statistics Canada Open Tools
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 Data Website
City of Montreal Open Data Website is an open-source civic technology project or repository maintained by City of Montréal.
Represent
A civic information platform and API for identifying elected representatives and electoral districts in Canada.
Popolo
An open specification for structuring data about people, organizations, elections, and public decision-making.
Civic Platform
A set of open components for building civic participation and public-information services.
DuckDB
An embedded analytical SQL database optimized for local data analysis.
Metabase
A business intelligence application for querying data and creating dashboards without extensive coding.
Grafana
A visualization and dashboard platform for metrics, logs, traces, and operational data.
Prometheus
A monitoring and alerting system based on time-series metrics and powerful queries.
Loki
A horizontally scalable log aggregation system designed to integrate with Grafana.
OpenSearch
A distributed search and analytics suite for applications, logs, and observability data.
Elasticsearch
A distributed search and analytics engine for text, structured data, and logs.
Matomo
A privacy-respecting web analytics platform that can be self-hosted.
Plausible Analytics
A lightweight privacy-focused website analytics platform.
Umami
A simple privacy-focused web analytics application for self-hosted deployments.
OpenRefine
A desktop tool for cleaning, transforming, reconciling, and exploring messy data.
KNIME Analytics Platform
A visual data science platform for building analytics and machine-learning workflows.
Orange Data Mining
A visual programming environment for data analysis, machine learning, and teaching.
JupyterLab
An interactive development environment for notebooks, code, data, and scientific workflows.
RStudio
An integrated development environment for R and data science workflows.
GNU PSPP
A statistical analysis application designed as an open alternative to proprietary statistics packages.
Jamovi
A user-friendly statistical analysis application built on the R language.
GO Pay Scraper
Example Go project from the Canada School of Public Service for scraping federal collective-agreement pay data.
MetPX-Sarracenia
Canadian meteorological data-pumping and subscription system for reliable real-time data distribution.
OpenTabulate
Statistics Canada platform for centralizing, processing, cleaning, and tabulating data.
CKAN Extension Territoire
City of Montréal CKAN extension supporting municipal open-data catalogue functionality.
mpacParser
City of Sault Ste. Marie utility for parsing Municipal Property Assessment Corporation year-end tax files.
ckanext-ab_scheming
Alberta government CKAN extension used to define metadata schemas for the provincial open-data catalogue.
ckanext-open_alberta
CKAN extension developed for Alberta’s open-data publishing platform.
ckanext-bcgov
Government of British Columbia CKAN extension used by the BC Data Catalogue.
A2AJ Canadian Legal Data
Open legal-data initiative providing programmatic access to Canadian court decisions and statutes for research and access-to-justice tools.
Datasets
Open-source software project maintained in a public source repository.
Htop
Open-source monitoring project maintained in a public source repository.
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