To better find open vacancies for childcare in BC, I created two tools: a website that lets interactive exploration of childcare facilities in BC with open vacancies, and 2. a twitter (mastodon) bot that reports daily open vacancies.

These data are updated daily using the BC Childcare Map dataset from the BC Child Care dataset from the BC government's website.

The BC Child Care Dashboard is a quarto dashboard to help find open vacancies across BC Childcare facilities. It uses github actions to pull up-to-date data from the BC government's dataset resources directly. It has a combination of interactive filters, map views, and listings to help navigate through the dataset.

Source for the BC child care vacancy bot @bcchildcarebot built by Victor Yuan. The repo contains a GitHub Action that executes R code on every day to:

1. Pull out data from BC Child Care dataset
2. Check daily for any new vacancies
3. Generate a summary of new vacancies
4. report vacancies to Mastodon / Twitter

This bot is built following Matt Dray's post on the @londonmapbot.

For Mastodon, create an account on a Instance of your choosing (not botsin.space, which is only for bot accounts). Then follow and turn on notifications.

1. Create a mastdon account for your bot botsin.space
2. add api keys as secrets (see github actions)
3. Write r script to use rtoot to post to mastodon
4. set up github actions cron job to run daily

TBD