Category: News

The first issue of Parallax Information Consulting’s newsletter was published this morning. You can read it here. Please subscribe here if you’d like to hear about what what we’re working on.

We look forward to sharing what we are working on and what we find interesting in the coming months!

We are happy to announce that Jobina Bardai is joining Parallax Information as assistant and project manager. As we grow and expand our horizons, we recognize the importance of having a dedicated and talented team.

Jobina brings a strong background in administration, project management, and business. She has worked with a variety of businesses and specializes in developing systems that make organizations flow better. She also brings a commitment to creative expression, which she expresses outside of work as a contemporary dancer.

Please join us in extending an enthusiastic welcome to Jobina. We’re thrilled to have her join us as we grow. She brings unique skills and perspective, which will contribute to exceptional service to clients across the legal, technology, and information organization sectors.

Welcome Jobina!

I am happy to share a newly created dashboard to facilitate navigation of the results from the Canadian Legal Problems Survey. You can access the dashboard here. It is designed to allow you to explore the data to better understand what legal problems Canadians experience, how they respond, and how demographic variables correspond to legal problems. The data is pulled from the Canadian Legal Problems Survey Public Use Microdata File (PUMF), which is available from the Statistics Canada website.

There is also an auxiliary app to assist in navigating the code book, which provides supporting materials on the survey design and definitions:

The dashboard was coded by Andrew Wong, a data scientist in Vancouver, BC. Andrew started his career as a cell biologist and is now focused on data science to further his passion for understanding complex systems. You can find his portfolio at mixedconclusions.com.

The code is available on GitHub. Andrew also wrote a technical blog post that gives more information about the project.

We hope you find the dashboard interesting. If you’d like to discuss how a more detailed analysis of this or other data could support your organization, please contact us.

I am so grateful to share that I won the Denis Marshall Memorial Award for Excellence in Law Librarianship from Canadian Association of Law Libraries. This is a wonderful recognition of my work and very much appreciated.

I’d like to thank everyone at Canadian Association of Law Libraries and LexisNexis Canada Inc. for conferring the award. I’d also like to make a special shout out to Alisa Lazear, Ivan Mokanov, Xavier Beauchamp-Tremblay, Alexander Tsang, CanLII, Lexum, Federation of Law Societies of Canada, and the many volunteers who contribute to CanLII’s mission. It wouldn’t be the same without you!

I’m so glad that we can work together to make a great legal information system in Canada. I’m looking forward to seeing what the next stage looks like.

We are so happy to launch Parallax Information Consulting.

Continue reading “Launch!”