My interests
I'm generally really into environment, indigenous rights and human rights. This is more or less what I do for a living, so you could say I'm pretty interested in my work.
Outside of work, I'm mildly interested in things like technology, analytics and finance (while that may seem odd, I've found that finance issues and environmental issues, especially where 'major projects' are concerned, are pretty closely intertwined. While much of my work would suggest I should be reading the political news - I do - the first part of the paper I open in the morning is often the business section).
One thing that I've been really into lately is what I'm loosely calling 'analytics'. Basically, I like playing around with spreadsheets to see what they can tell me about indigenous law and policy developments. A lot of what you find when you start doing that is really nothing novel, but some of the conclusions you can reach are somewhat surprising.
That'll be coming soon in projects. Though its dramatically increased my interest level lately in what I'd call 'real' analytics, spreadsheets, something called 'scraping' and, my biggest challenge: data visualization. The latter being a challenge, because if you haven't guessed from my website, I really don't have a good eye for design and layout.
I also closely follow Canada's 'open government' initiatives. It's true that for my day job, I follow a lot of law and policy developments in indigenous rights, international and environmental issues, my personal interests really veer into open government.
I believe that using analytics may be the wave (or a wave) of the future, at least in indigenous rights advocacy and litigation. I suspect analytics are already being used extensively elsewhere (jury selection and possibly in strategic management of litigation within major corporations or industries or, perhaps more likely, within the insurance community). If they aren't being used and applied yet, they should be in the near future.
Outside of work, I'm mildly interested in things like technology, analytics and finance (while that may seem odd, I've found that finance issues and environmental issues, especially where 'major projects' are concerned, are pretty closely intertwined. While much of my work would suggest I should be reading the political news - I do - the first part of the paper I open in the morning is often the business section).
One thing that I've been really into lately is what I'm loosely calling 'analytics'. Basically, I like playing around with spreadsheets to see what they can tell me about indigenous law and policy developments. A lot of what you find when you start doing that is really nothing novel, but some of the conclusions you can reach are somewhat surprising.
That'll be coming soon in projects. Though its dramatically increased my interest level lately in what I'd call 'real' analytics, spreadsheets, something called 'scraping' and, my biggest challenge: data visualization. The latter being a challenge, because if you haven't guessed from my website, I really don't have a good eye for design and layout.
I also closely follow Canada's 'open government' initiatives. It's true that for my day job, I follow a lot of law and policy developments in indigenous rights, international and environmental issues, my personal interests really veer into open government.
I believe that using analytics may be the wave (or a wave) of the future, at least in indigenous rights advocacy and litigation. I suspect analytics are already being used extensively elsewhere (jury selection and possibly in strategic management of litigation within major corporations or industries or, perhaps more likely, within the insurance community). If they aren't being used and applied yet, they should be in the near future.