by Alex | May 13, 2016 | In the news
We were recently on stage at the Open Data Institute Queensland for the April 2016 Lunchtime Lecture edition. We explored case studies of organisations such as the City of Paris and Brussels who implemented their open dat a strategies based on next generation open... 
by Alex | Feb 19, 2016 | Open Data Queensland
State Library of Queensland’s open data sets are a gold mine. For the next post of our “Public libraries open Data and Australian history” series, we spent some time analysing the British Convict transportation registers data set. The data set... 
by Alex | Jun 5, 2015 | Open Data Queensland, Open Government
We came across a few very interesting data sets recently, and quite different to what is typically found on open data catalogues: thousands of photographs of Queenslanders across time and geography as well as 250+ historical maps of Australia dating from 1552 to 1950.... 
by Alex | Mar 15, 2015 | Open Data New South Wales, Open Government
The purpose of this post is to analyse how the publication of open data can benefit existing government reporting processes and to emphasise the importance of making open data available in machine readable format. For this we are going to take an example in New South... 
by Alex | Dec 10, 2014 | Open Data Tasmania, Open Government
We stumbled across an interesting dataset on data.gov.au: “All vehicular crashes on Tasmanian roads reported by Tasmanian police, or in the case of property damage only, crashes reported by the public.” The dataset includes approx. 140,000 records, which... 