okSchool Explorer (Victoria)
- Created by
- Highlands by Design
- data.australia.gov.au datasets used
- Other datasets used
- Data from the CData website; ABS Census 2006 Basic Community Profile; Religion, Age, and Income Profiles for States and Regions; Digital Boundaries from the ABS; GeoNames postcode dump; GoogleMaps api
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 includes things like displaying the most popular university degrees of the suburb for an age group of say 18 to 28. Unfortunately I haven’t grabbed that data yet, but the potential is endless. What I do have is the religion and income data for regions, so each postcode search will display the most likely region of that postcode, and look at the region as a whole. It’ll be good to look at a suburb level, but for now it’s not possible. It will then display a chart of both the popular religions and the income groups. Age data I m anaged to grab for regions and towns, and so here the concern was children of school age. The best I could do with relating other categories to each school was to link the closest Emergency Services to the school, which is then displayed when a marker is clicked. I’m probably explaining all the meaning out of this, but I be interesting to apply this sort of thing across other categories, and so a church category page would be concerned with charity organisations and religious statistics. It’ll also be nice to play around with infographic type images to try and give some meaning to the bar charts without needing to mouse over, but that’s for another time.
