2022-10-18 UX of Historical Data with Library and Archives Canada

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This time at CapCHI, the Digital Access Agile Team from Library and Archives Canada (LAC) will introduce us to their newly developed census access tool Census Search. Census Search unifies all 17 separate historical Census databases currently available on the LAC website and makes them accessible to the public via one searchable interface. Our guests will discuss the many challenges the team has faced during the development and design process of Census Search’s interface and database and share the many valuable insights they uncovered along the way.

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2022-09-20 Rethinking Social Data with Dr. Kenton White

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10 years ago Social Media broke into the mainstream. Facebook, Twitter and Reddit promised an unfiltered view into our collective consciousness. Today influencers and bots actively game the system, skewing perception towards their agendas. There are still insights that can be mined from Social Data, but with ever increasing effort. At Advanced Symbolics we developed a tool called askpolly that rethinks Social Data from the ground up, making finding those insights effortless. I’ll discuss every aspect of Social Data we considered in askpolly’s development and how at every step we defined the user experience and tackled tough technological challenges.


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