Natural Resources committee  I would take these guys out, do an interchange with Amazon and Google, and make them spend six months or a year seeing how it's done, and learning the way you interact with data. What I see, and I worked in the public service, is typically an IT solution, because there are limite

Natural Resources committee  The data typically now is attached to the process. You have something you want to do, you want to count widgets, and you collect the data for counting those widgets. You process it, and you have a very effective system for collecting and using that data to count widgets. That dat

Natural Resources committee  I guess we have to get over the fear to tap into the actual data stream. We—our regulatory frameworks and our government frameworks—still operate and work in a model that says, “Give us what you want, once you've had time to go through it and sort it out, and we'll have a look at

Natural Resources committee  One of the real keys—I didn't get a lot of time to talk about it—is the Internet of things technology, the industrial Internet of things. I'll give you a quick example. I did an investigation a couple of years ago. A runaway crude oil car collided with a standing train and derai

Natural Resources committee  It's an example of chaos theory. It's not one or two options; it's an infinite number. What really works in chaos theory, and what some of the machine learning and AI techniques are discovering, is that they're able to predict the patterns in chaos theory further down the line.

Natural Resources committee  I would agree with the iterative word. I think you need to treat this like an incubator process. I think you need to go in there lean and mean. I used to have a small business. I did it for 10 years. What I realized was that, when you have no money, you learn to do things that yo

Natural Resources committee  You want to know how StatsCan could be a lead organization?

Natural Resources committee  It's an old and wooden organization.

Natural Resources committee  I think what I'm talking about here is that any analytical process is a triumvirate. You have the subject matter expertise, you have the statistical skills, and you have the technical science skills. Those data science people need to be pointed in the right direction. That's what

Natural Resources committee  Yes, you're going to have to cut me. I'll close up. I'll give you the four points, the things that I'd like to see here and I think we need to do. Firstly, augment, don't duplicate. The EIA has been doing this in the U.S. for 40 years. Let's not try to repeat what they're doing.

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