Writing a Scraper and API for Toronto Homeless Shelter Usage

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William will demo a scraper and API endpoint built to track Toronto homeless shelter usage when the City of Toronto declined to provide regular historical data.

Presenter: William Wolfe-Wylie

William is a developer at CBC News where he builds public- and journalist-facing tools to help tell stories and gather data.

William will demo a scraper and API endpoint built to track Toronto homeless shelter usage when the City of Toronto declined to provide regular historical data.

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