All Facts & Figures
NSW Crime through the looking glass
The concept is that as you zoom the map, your view of the data changes to reveal other relationships between the data. It is intended as a bit of fun with the allusion to Alice in Wonderland and how deep rabbit holes go. It is also a bit of an experiment to see how to [...]
Categories: Employment & Workplace, Facts & Figures, Law & Justice, Mashups
My Solar Saver
My Solar Saver mashes together a variety of data relating to solar hot water that people can display for the area in which they live, with the aim of inspiring people to install solar hot water systems on their homes. It shows people how much they could save off their hot water bill and how [...]
How Safe is Your Suburb
How Safe Is Your Suburb is an easy- to-use interactive web application that allows the public to gain greater awareness and insight into crime statistics in Local Government Areas (suburbs) in New South Wales. The tool can be used by residents, local governments, state and federal government, researchers, non-government agencies, and crime and policy makers [...]
Categories: Facts & Figures, Family, Home & Community, Health & Safety, Law & Justice, Mapping, Mashups
Stimulating A Sunburnt People
On 3 Feburary 2009 the Labor Government began implementing its Nation Building Economic Stimulus plan. Our mashup and accompanying textual analysis aggregates data on community infrastructure and rail and road spending at the level of Federal Electoral Divisions. Users can explore how this spending was allocated by clicking on any area of the map or [...]
Promoting Cycling
To promote cycling as a mode of transport you need good cycling infrastructure. To build that infrastructure, we need to know where people cycle and how many, so it can be constructed appropriately and effectively. Cyclist trip counts acquired by electronic counters around Sydney have been hiding in an old and dusty Excel file. They [...]
Crimewave
Crimewave provides an overview of crime incidents committed per city, as provided from the excel dataset “Crime incident type and frequency, by capital city and nationally” The excel file is read, parsed and served up via a public webservice. Inside the application users are able to gain an overview of the crime statistics in a [...]
Categories: Facts & Figures, Health & Safety, Law & Justice, Mapping, Mashups, Transformation Challenge
Flink Weather
Inspired by the bush fires in Victoria earlier this year, Flink Weather is a data visualisation that explores the relationship between air quality in the city and the temperature, wind and humidity. Showing the air quality readings over 2008 the viewer sees a wax and wane as if the city is almost breathing. The weather [...]
Categories: Environment & Natural Resources, Facts & Figures, Mashups
eightinsight
Eightinsight is a collection of data from the ABS, OpenAustralia.org, and data.australia.gov.au. The data is organised into four sections which give the user the ability to relate the progress of Australia to the federal government for key topics. This gives a simple introduction into how parliament relates to Australia’s progress and performance. The data is [...]
KML Cruncher
The KML Cruncher is a web service/web page that converts and generalises ESRI polygon shape files into KML ready for the web. It’s useful for those people who quickly want to move from the ESRI shape file format into KML for web mash ups, without the fuss of obtaining heavy weight GIS systems. For more [...]
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okSchool Explorer (Victoria)
I got on this late, but I did get a week of considering what angle to take, and then a week doing it up. The idea behind this mashup was to attempt to create a relationship between a category (in this case schools) and the physical location of the school. So the potential with schools [...]
Categories: Education & Training, Facts & Figures, Family, Home & Community, Mapping, Mashups
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