McMaster Research Co-op leads charge to harvest community energy

Canada loses 60 per cent of its energy because of heat needlessly exhausted out of our homes, office towers, data centres or grocery stores. McMaster University professor Jim Cotton has a plan to change that. “We’re taking heat that we just dump out of our arenas, our data centres, our grocery stores, and reusing it […]

10 Canadians using data to build the health care system of the future

In 1961, Tommy Douglas’ Saskatchewan government innovated a vital Canadian institution when he introduced Canada’s first universal publicly funded medical care. Sixty years later, a group of Canadians are reinventing health care all over again. And they’re doing it using the ascendant tool of the digital age: data.‍ Deploying data holds risks. But it can […]

Top 5 Data Jobs Canada Should Invest In

The first recorded experiment in statistical data analysis was conducted in the mid 1600’s to create an early-warning system for the bubonic plague. Fast forward to 1974 and the term ‘data science’ was first used, to describe the convergence of data and computers to process large volumes of data to solve complex problems that couldn’t […]