Helping local farmers with IoT and Open Data
Working in collaboration with the South Grampians Shire Council and Meshed, we have deployed an end-to-end Smart Agriculture solution providing hyper-local weather information to local farmers. The Open Data portal makes a number of datasets available to the public...
ODIQ Lunchtime: Fostering data reuse and community engagement through next generation open data portals
We were recently on stage at the Open Data Institute Queensland for the April 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 data...
Libraries open data and Australian history #2: convicts transportation
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 contains details for...
What will the New South Wales population look like in 2031?
The NSW Department of Planning and Environment (NSW DPE) has recently released a few interesting open data sets related to population growth forecast in New South Wales. We thought it could be interesting to investigate how the NSW population may evolve in the next 20...
Open Data and Australian history: exploring 10,000+ photos and maps of Queensland from 1791 to 2004
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....
From dormant CSV file to front page of a newspaper, and beyond: the concept of “data marketing”
Read how we brought to life 10 years of Tasmanian road crash data which then made it to the front page of the local newspaper: “The Mercury: Tassie’s crash hotspots revealed: Railway Roundabout comes in at number one” Our 10 years of Tasmanian road crash data...
Use of machine readable open data to streamline government reporting processes
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...
Exploring 10 years of road crash data in Tasmania
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 capture all...
City of Gold Coast open data
Only a handful of councils in Australia have opened their data. Our quick research identified Brisbane and Gold Coast in Queensland, Mosman in NSW, Hobart, Launceston and Glenorchy in Tasmania, and Ballarat and Geelong in Victoria. There could be a few more, and we'll...