Comments on: eightinsight http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/transport/eightinsight/ An initiative of the Government 2.0 Taskforce Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:39:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Robert http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/transport/eightinsight/comment-page-1/#comment-372 Robert Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:46:24 +0000 http://mashupaustralia.org/?p=638#comment-372 Really good points. It's difficult when the ABS data source for "2009" goes only to 2006 in categories such as greenhouse gasses. Despite that, I hope the concept still comes across. As for depth, the idea was to simplify the data without <a href="http://thisisindexed.com/2009/10/needles-and-haystacks-and-such/" rel="nofollow">information overload</a>. That said, a bit of drill through could work well. I hadn't even considered that internet filters would exclude flickr - I guess we're lucky to have a fairly open policy on internet use. As these are licensed under creative commons there is the option to fall back to a cached image, I will look into that. Thanks for the feedback. Rob Really good points. It’s difficult when the ABS data source for “2009″ goes only to 2006 in categories such as greenhouse gasses. Despite that, I hope the concept still comes across.

As for depth, the idea was to simplify the data without information overload. That said, a bit of drill through could work well.

I hadn’t even considered that internet filters would exclude flickr – I guess we’re lucky to have a fairly open policy on internet use. As these are licensed under creative commons there is the option to fall back to a cached image, I will look into that.

Thanks for the feedback.

Rob

]]> By: Adam Kennedy http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/transport/eightinsight/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Adam Kennedy Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:55:50 +0000 http://mashupaustralia.org/?p=638#comment-371 In principle, this is a good idea. It's main problem is that it suffers from information lag, and lacks the depth to compensate for that. This is not necessarily their fault, but it impinges on the site nonetheless. Also, for people in business or government locations with internet filters, the images on the front page are unviewable. And because you can't click on them and do anything useful I was very confused at first. However, the layout and general look and feel is really good, and if the government starts releasing some more timely information this should become a really great resource. In principle, this is a good idea.

It’s main problem is that it suffers from information lag, and lacks the depth to compensate for that. This is not necessarily their fault, but it impinges on the site nonetheless.

Also, for people in business or government locations with internet filters, the images on the front page are unviewable. And because you can’t click on them and do anything useful I was very confused at first.

However, the layout and general look and feel is really good, and if the government starts releasing some more timely information this should become a really great resource.

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