GOVIS – visualising government
- Created by
- MOB
- data.australia.gov.au datasets used
A collaborative workspace for the visualisation of government structures, functions and datasets.
Currently this uses the Commonwealth Agency data released by the National Archives and the goal is to link this to all the other datasets that have been released.
I’m not sure what this is supposed to do, but whatever that is it doesn’t do it…
Weird graphics bugs on IE, other weird graphics bugs on Firefox… maybe this is one of those crazy Safari only apps?
Hey Adam, thanks for the…erm…feedback 8)
I think there may have been some initial bugs…but it should be pretty stable now. You’ve got my email so feel free to send me some screen grabs if you have an specific issues 8P
Definitely not a Safari only app! Other than a centering issue we’re working on, it works pretty well on all the browsers we’ve tested. It even works on the iPhone…but we’ll be updating it with a special optimised version for that soon.
BTW: Love the voting bot you’ve been running 8)
Sample screenshots sent.
Tons of people were using bots, I was just the first person to SAY I was using bots and how pointless the voting had become.
That bug is squished now so should be working well on MSIE, Firefox and Safari. Diagram code released under GPL and more updates coming soon…
Is this a directed acyclic graph? Or… does it handle (or did you find any but not handle) cross-agency taskforces?
Hi Dave, yeah each node’s children are presented as a directed circular graph. We’re working through mapping these directly to the Agencies themselves…although there appears to be some major holes in the data. The functions do move around from Agency to Agency over time and Agencies themselves change and evolve too…so time is an important thing to represent.
However, while we’re working on untangling that we thought this simple top-level navigation was useful for just getting a feel for the overall scope and structure of the current Federal Government.
Ideally we’d also be able to link in data about each agency’s budget and headcount to add meaning to the size and/or shape of each node.
We’re also looking to use the colour of each node to show how much data related to that specific Function has been released too.
Please let us know if you have any suggestions/ideas and any links to specific data/agencies you’d like to see included.