Open Data Portal Adds More Datasets

New datasets are being added to government’s open data portal today, July 15.

Datasets being made available include:

• data on Innovacorp’s venture capital investments
• details on companies residing at Innovacorp’s world-class incubation sites
• data on Nova Scotia Business Inc. export development and investment attraction activities
• funding for production companies through the Nova Scotia Film and Television Production Incentive Fund
• data on payments through the Nova Scotia Children’s Oral Health Program

The portal provides free, easy access to a variety of government data in easy-to-work with formats. Since its launch in February 2016, the open data portal has had over one million page views and 67,000 downloads.

The data is available at http://data.novascotia.ca .

FOR BROADCAST:

New datasets are being added to government’s open data

portal today (July 15th).

New datasets being made available include venture capital

investments by Innovacorp, Nova Scotia Business Inc. export

development and investment attraction activities and funding for

production companies through the Nova Scotia Film and Television

Production Incentive Fund.

The data is available at DATA-dot-NOVASCOTIA-dot-C-A.