Suburban Trends
- Contest Winner
- Excellence in Mashing and Best Student Entry
- Created by
- Alejandro Metke and Michael Henderson
- data.australia.gov.au datasets used
Crime incidents data - 2004 International Crime Victimisation Survey (ICVS)
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Recorded Crime Dataset
- Other datasets used
Census of Population and Housing: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) - 2006
Census of Population and Housing: Census Geographic Areas Digital Boundaries
Suburban Trends compares and contrasts Australian suburbs. Graphical indicators reveal different aspects of each suburb, including socio-economic standing, education levels and perceived safety levels. For suburbs within NSW, crime trends are also available. Additionally, a Web Services API allows this data to be easily reused.
Judges' Comments: A mashup of different types of crime and census data that allows you to compare and contrast suburbs by a range of economic, education, safety and socio-economic indicators. The judges thought the ability to compare suburbs visually combined with the selective choice of statistics was excellent especially in a field dominated by many entries using similar datasets.
Excellent !!!
Love it! One of my favourite entries so far. Would be nice to see demographics details of each suburb too.
Lots of fun – I spent hours just going around looking at different groups of suburbs and how they stacked up according to different metrics.
This mashup is already useful – it will help my local group as we promote walking as a safe and healthy way to get around our neighbourhood. Thanks!
[...] Surburban Trends a mashup of different types of crime and census data that allows you compare and contrast suburbs by a range of economic, education, safety and socio-economic indicators. The judges thought the ability to compare suburbs visually combined with the selective choice of statistics was excellent especially in a field dominated by many entries using similar datasets. [...]