Toronto Dogs & Cats Dashboard 🐶🐱

A lean, static dashboard visualizing licensed dog and cat data from the City of Toronto Open Data portal. Designed to run on GitHub Pages.

Live Demo

Enable GitHub Pages (Settings → Pages → Deploy from branch main) and visit https://<username>.github.io/dogsdogsdogs/.

Features

• Summary cards — total dogs, cats, pets, and postal areas
• Choropleth map — toggle between dog/cat/total density by FSA (Forward Sortation Area)
• Top names charts — most popular dog and cat names (2020–present)
• Breed breakdown — top 15 dog and cat breeds (2023–present)
• Yearly trends — licence counts by year

Data Sources

Dataset	URL
Licensed Dogs and Cats	https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/licensed-dogs-and-cats/
Licensed Dog and Cat Names	https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/licensed-dog-and-cat-names/

Refreshing Data

python fetch_data.py

This downloads the latest CSVs from Toronto Open Data and writes:

• data/dashboard.json — aggregated stats, names, breeds, yearly trends
• data/toronto_fsa.geojson — FSA boundaries with pet counts

A GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/refresh-data.yml) runs automatically every Monday and commits updated data.

Stack

• Python 3 (stdlib only) — data fetch + processing
• Leaflet — interactive map
• Chart.js — charts
• GitHub Pages — hosting

No build step, no Node.js, no frameworks — just static HTML/CSS/JS.