Objective: Engaging with local community through playful visualisation of (geo-located) city data as parametric interactive abstract faces. Developing a mobile AR (Augmented Reality) app with two modes, where ‘Mode 1’ will be - translating city data as a parametric face of the city (neighborh...
Go to Project | IDeEA lab
SoloNav Extracting information from open Government datasets can be a frustrating and overwhelming process. Data analysists and researchers spend more than 80% of their time trying to find accessible, reliable and up-to-date resources (Quora, 2018). Issues with the current open sources data ...
Go to Project | Insight Hackers
An audio guided, multilingual, augmented reality mobile app designed for both locals and tourists to see the past history of Melbourne.
Go to Project | TinyIdeas💡
Scammy bot is an intelligent bot being trained to communicate with members of the public and identify all sorts of scams. Scammy is also a Chrome extension that alerts users when they visit suspicious pages that may harm users, for example, shown on the right is a scam email that links users ...
Go to Project | Box of Nerds
Orana is an interactive website that can recommend migrants which suburb to move to, by exploring and understanding Government and open data about various Victorian suburbs. Orana provides insights on factors providing overall quality of life in selected suburbs and provides an avenue for explo...
Go to Project | TubeLights
The Right to the Night project is aimed at creating safer public spaces for women in the Ballarat CBD. Between February and May this year, The City of Ballarat and partners asked women to contribute their perspectives of safety across the CBD. During the GovHack weekend, we're investigating ...
Go to Project | Team 337
Over 110,000 people in Australia are bankrupt. Whether they share it or not, each one of us knows someone who has been affected…Life doesn’t always go to plan. So we pulled together a team of data scientists, lawyers, coders and engineers to research the problem and create a solution which we cal...
Go to Project | Team insolvit
## Problem Local and federal governments have significant amounts of data that they have opened for public use. We know that currently, these datasets are gold mines to provide unbiased education of young people on the world they live in, but aren’t accessible in a fun or even simple manner. In ...
Go to Project | I adopted a puppy today but I'm still here hacking
OzBusiness is a web application that provides small business owners and entrepreneurs a platform to easily find a suitable area to establish their business. Using various sources of data, OzBusiness filters out any unfitting areas for the user's particular requirements leaving behind the best opt...
Go to Project | Small Data team
**Ctrl-Access - Control your data, Access data relevant to you** Our project focus is empowering individuals to take control of their interactions with government data, and to mine their personal data. We do this through *a configurable, secure client.* The client can interact with user dat...
Go to Project | Team 41
An attempt to find an amazeballs solution for Casey's Crash problems
Go to Project | The Kwelamen
The story of my failed attempt to find an amazeballs solution for Casey's Crash Challenge
Go to Project | The Kwelamen
Based the large number of free wi-fi hotspots (either at train stations, or at council locations) across Melbourne, this presents a unique opportunity to present those who connect with a data-driven story available in multiple languages. Given the geo-location of available wi-fi hotspots, user...
Go to Project | Team 180
Learn about the demographics and stats that make up regions across Australia through a web-based trivia game! the Australia Game makes exploring the diversity of Australian communities fun through a Who Wants to be a Millionaire?-style interface. Using Google Maps, players can see the communities...
Go to Project | Work In Progress
The Happy Parking! project aims to make the most use of the open-source data from government solving practical problems and tell stories of urban development according to historical car park data. ### Part 1 Parkers aim to create a real-time web app for end-users, helping drivers to find a ...
Go to Project | Pakers
A local story generator for kids to put together a story board similar to a comic book. The style chosen is a "choose your own adventure" but the adventure is links to various data sources linked on many dimensions. With the diverse data available, every story created is different. The story can ...
Go to Project | Team 101
Imagine if your politicians were more data driven. Imagine if you could make sure your needs and your preferences were right there in front of your MP so every decision they made were backed by facts and evidence instead of being influenced by lobbyists and personal biases. This app puts your nee...
Go to Project | Zero c00l
Engaging Councils to increase openness and innovation through a card game! Based on the popular "Top Trump" game, we play council versus council to see who is the most innovative, most open and most livable!
Go to Project | Team Hackers
The aim of this project is to look at range of data sources from Ballarat to visualise the story of life, and perceptions of safety, in our town. Right to the Night data inspired this project, as it is rich in qualitative and quantitative data. This data was mapped and compared with other feat...
Go to Project | Amaltr
*When visualisations are removed from the real world, for example when shared on FaceBook or Linked in, there's danger that they become an amusement, sometimes trivialising what could be serious and impactful content.* *In other cases information is simply hard to find when and where you nee...
Go to Project | JNA Mobile
This project aims to reduce misconceptions about migrant groups in the age of social media by letting communities tell their stories complemented by facts.
Go to Project | The Outsiders