Identify and acquire relevant datasets

[nick-gibb]

Start with Canadian cities:

• Montreal
• Toronto
• Vancouver
• Calgary

Data needed:

• Census data: population, demographics (income, race)
• Building features (building-level or aggregated), e.g. age of building, height
• Zoning
• Rental costs
• Housing costs
• Cost of living

Wherever possible, download data programmatically, so collaborators can quickly get going.

[StanNowak]

Places to look:

• https://www.kaggle.com/
• https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/
• https://www.ipums.org/ (for international census)
• https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E
• numbeo.com

[StanNowak]

Calgary open data portal:

https://data.calgary.ca/browse?q=land%20use&sortBy=relevance

[nick-gibb]

https://communitydata.ca/