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Canada's best student coders, designers win big in Waterloo Region
21 January 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Event recaps, Featured, News
Waterloo student coders recently won first place at the Code to Win/Design to Win challenge held at Communitech. Read more
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Waterloo students snag top prizes at Code/Design to Win
19 January 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
Code/Design to Win is an annual event where students compete to solve coding and design problems with all of the $12,000 in prizes being scooped up by University of Waterloo students. Read more
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Open data fuels predictive vehicle maintenance platform, Pitstop
02 July 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Using open data to power a predictive algorithm could allow a startup to access a market that is comprised of millions of potential clients: North America’s car owners. Pitstop combines proprietary datasets… Read more
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Open data helps education technology startup, Peekapak, expand into Ontario schools
15 June 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Reading, writing, and math aren't the only things educators need to teach. Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills are top of mind in today’s schools. Enter Peekapak, a Canadian education technology… Read more
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Chillwall's desire prediction AI will fulfill your curiosity for local events
04 June 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Chillwall AI is the next transformative step for Chillwall, the consumer application that combs through event websites in 2,000 cities worldwide, allowing users to discover events, map them, select them… Read more
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Open data smoothing connections between founders and funders via Hockeystick
18 May 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Hockeystick, a Toronto-based startup that uses open data to reduce obstacles to the private market. Hockeystick provides data tools for companies, investors and governments to leverage data to drive greater… Read more
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Land development made easier, with open data
16 May 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
MapYourProperty is a company that has turned week-long searches into a matter of minutes, thanks in part to its association with the ODX Ventures program of Canada’s Open Data Exchange. In a matter of… Read more
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ThinkData Works on how to digest 46 trillion points of data
08 May 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Variety can be an obstacle for businesses trying to make sense of open datasets. ThinkData Works, that has built a software program that helps normalize datasets so businesses can get more out of data… Read more
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"Doing good" is open data's secret superpower
20 April 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Many members of the tech community at large want to make the world a better place. This drive has pushed for organizations such as DataKind, Data for Good, and Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition,… Read more
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For Plasticity Labs, happiness is dipping their toes into a sea of data
17 April 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Plasticity Labs was part of the first ODX Ventures cohort. Their core beliefs are in workplace culture and company performance. They have the opportunity to tap into huge amounts of data to continue on… Read more