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Posted on June 12, 2016

Data Sources

Course data download

Bank branch data

Health Canada, water advisories

WD grants and contributions

The data dictionary for the WD data

Financial Institutions Branch Directory

Aboriginal lands maps

Spreadsheets

Digging Deeper spreadsheet appendix

Mapping and visualization

Digging Deeper Fusion Tables/Tableau Public appendix

Google geocoding limits

A free batch geocoder

Tools

Fusion Tables layer wizard

ArcGIS Online

CartoDB

Tableau Public

The True Size of…. Interactive projection visualizer

Scraping resources and tools

import.io Simple, automated scrapes of table data

First Web Scraper tutorial

An excellent book on scraping using Python Feel free to buy anywhere, but Amazon is often cheapest

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