Episodes

  • Food and Agriculture Data in Canada

    Food and Agriculture Data in Canada
    Mar 3 2025
    Our panel this time is Frazier Fathers, Rashmi Krishnamohan, Rachael Myers and Doug Sartori.

    This month we look at data on food and agriculture in Canada, including an in-depth look at Little Foot Foods, a pierogi manufacturer in Windsor, Ontario. Check out the blog post for more details: https://meanmedianmoose.ca/2025/03/03/food-and-agriculture-data-in-canada/

    Theme Music: RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeod
    Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-clean
    License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    50 mins
  • Inflation, Intelligence, and Interesting Canadians

    Inflation, Intelligence, and Interesting Canadians
    Jan 20 2025
    This month we're looking at tools and methods for working with unstructured data. The panel is Andy Dyck, John Haldeman, Frazier Fathers, and Doug Sartori.

    Check out the blog post for links, charts and more: https://meanmedianmoose.ca/2025/01/20/inflation-intelligence-and-interesting-canadians


    Theme Music: RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeod
    Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-clean
    License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    55 mins
  • Christmas Data 2024

    Christmas Data 2024
    Dec 20 2024
    Our 2024 Christmas episode features two new voices alongside regulars Doug Sartori and John Haldeman. Lee Doucet of Niagara College joined us to share his students' work inspired by the podcast, and Andy Dyck of Open Data Saskatchewan (https://www.opendatask.ca/) was kind enough to put together a terrific dataset demoing the impressive capabilities of R for visualizations.
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    46 mins
  • Live at the Growing Your Workforce Conference

    Live at the Growing Your Workforce Conference
    Dec 2 2024
    The Growing Your Workforce Conference is an annual event organized by the Workforce Boards of Ontario. This year, the conference was hosted by Workforce WindsorEssex, on November 21-22.

    The Mean, Median and Moose panel were invited to host a live episode at the conference, to share data and tools related to jobs and the economy. This is the live recording of the session. Check out the blog post for charts and links to source data and other goodies: https://meanmedianmoose.ca/2024/12/02/live-at-growing-your-workforce.
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    34 mins
  • Hallowe'en Data Special

    Hallowe'en Data Special
    Oct 31 2024
    On this show our panel of data professionals - Katie Renaud, Frazier Fathers, John Haldeman and Doug Sartori - take a look at the world of public interest data. This time around, we look at public data on Hallowe'en.

    Check out the blog for more information, charts and graphs: https://meanmedianmoose.ca/2024/10/30/canadian-halloween-data-special
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    39 mins
  • Pipelines, PowerBI, and Price Indexes

    Pipelines, PowerBI, and Price Indexes
    Sep 30 2024
    Your panel of data professionals is Rashmi Krishnamohan, John Haldeman, and Doug Sartori. On each episode, we take a look at the world of public-interest data in Canada. This time around, we look at tooling for data professionals.

    Check out the blog post on our website for charts, graphs and links to data.
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    38 mins
  • Messages, Murals, and Moods

    Messages, Murals, and Moods
    Jul 2 2024
    Your panel of data professionals is Katie Renaud, John Haldeman, Frazier Fathers, and Doug Sartori. On each episode, we take a look at the world of public-interest data in Canada. This time around, we created data sets of our own!

    Check out the blog post on our website for charts, graphs and links to data.
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    43 mins
  • Cannabis, Cheech, and Chong

    Cannabis, Cheech, and Chong
    May 4 2024
    Hello and welcome to Mean, Median and Moose: A podcast about data in Canada. Your panel of data professionals - Katie Renaud, John Haldeman, Frazier Fathers and me Doug Sartori take a look at the world of public-interest data. This time around we’re looking at data on cannabis in Canada. Check out the blog post for links and charts: https://meanmedianmoose.ca/2024/05/04/cannabis-cheech-and-chong
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    41 mins