Open Data Portal Adds New Datasets

Individuals and businesses can make discoveries and help grow the economy by using provincial government data made available through the open data portal.

New datasets were added to the portal today, Nov. 5, that can be used to support research and commercial applications.

New datasets include:

• details on community-based renewable energy projects funded through the Community Feed-in Tariff Program
• data from Develop Nova Scotia’s pedestrian counters on the Halifax waterfront
• data on usage and payments through provincial government dental programs
• tourism statistics on visitors to Nova Scotia by road and monthly visitors to provincial visitor information centres

“We want Nova Scotia to be a province that encourages people to innovate,” said Service Nova Scotia and Internal Services Minister Patricia Arab. “We’re making data available for free so that researchers and entrepreneurs can use it to create opportunities that can lead to new jobs and economic activity.”

Quick Facts:

• the open data portal was launched in February 2016
• there are now more than 800 datasets, maps, charts, other visuals and stories available on the portal
• to date it has had more than a million page views and 76,000 downloads
• data posted on the portal is available for download free of charge

Additional Resources:

Open data portal: http://data.novascotia.ca

Service Nova Scotia and Internal Services Twitter: https://twitter.com/ns_servicens