ACT/Canberra

We enhanced the data available within the Australian Government Organisations Register into a user friendly format, so that it can be easy understand what Government portfolios exist and how they change over time.
 

IGOR represents Government Organisation data in a sortable, searchable and paginated format. It allows the user to drill-down, and view the history of a field for a particular entity. This history view provides a clear picture of how the dataset has changed over time.

Crash Story is a platform to research and annotate road accidents, developing them into narratives for the purposes of reflection and providing increased awareness of road safety.

Saving energy is becoming even more crucial in the modern age, but how do we find out what the long term impact of different lifestyle choices will be on our overall energy consumption?

How much energy will running an AC at home take in a typical summer day?

What will be the overall effect of adding another fridge to the house?

Our Philisophy is to "Serve and protect". Our project forfills this idea as we have designed an application to assists cyclists when riding on the road. we chose this data as one of our group members has had many encounters of crashing whilst commuting on his bike. Many accidents are also caused by cyclists listening to music, unable to hear the environment around them. We were also influenced by the data set, as the task of translating this data into usable data into a user-friendly interface matched out skill set. 

Bill shock is an end user aimed app which aims to aid consumers and rate-payers with managing their electricity usage and power bill charges byb giving a breakdown to the individual device of the cost of running each device in a household. As such, in turn reduce their emmissions.

Reaction is a powerful data manipulation and monitoring tool. It allows you to stay up to date with Aussie data by automatically sending information at the right time.

At the heart of Reaction is its two key components - Triggers and Actions.

Actions are te way Reaction interacts with you. They allow it to email you and control your social media.

Triggers allow you to watch data and cause actions to be run. They can be used to monitor the datasets built into Reaction or any data imported as CSV/JSON files.

With summers growing hotter and hotter each year, Australians have become increasingly dependant on their air conditioners. However, excessive power consumption during this period continues to deteriorate Australia’s environment and its citizens’ wallets. Air Compare aims to rectify this issue, by providing Australians with an idea of the most efficient air conditioner for them, in terms of usage and entailed costs, ultimately attempting to reduce their power consumption.

Where you live has a huge impact on your quality of life, but when you're looking to move to a new area it can be difficult to find out important liveability information. How fast is the broadband? Is it an area with rich cultural diversity? How safe is it compared to other suburbs?

Bridge the Ditch

New Zealand is on-board for Govhack 2015!

We heard the news and felt at ease.  New Zealanders joining Govhack is like welcoming your first cousin into your home. Australians and New Zealanders know each other. We seem to have stood together throughout the years. We have shed blood together, in way too many wars. We have cheered together, but rarely for the same team. And we have shed tears together through national heartache and hardships.

They say that there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes.

But we were thinking… what if we used government data to work out which causes of death we should make less certain to improve our tax dollars.

To bring a bit of black humour to tax data, we used the ATO’s Individual tax tables and compared it to the deaths recorded by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s GRIM books for 2012. We also looked at the AIHW reports for Cancer mortality and health expenditure.