Melbourne Shut Up and Hack Night
This weeks OK Melbourne Meetup saw a dozen or so attendees working on various Open Knowledge related projects, products and ideas. Matt and Ling made an enthusiastic start on collecting attributes of current http://data.vic.gov.au/ datasets to gauge machine-readability and bulk accessibility as a resource for the community. The plan is to extend this to get […]
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Assessing government data accessibility and usability
One of the ideas that we at Open Knowledge Melbourne had as an activity for our weekly meetups was to set aside some time for people to browse the various Australian open data portals and assess the quality of the data sets they hold. The purpose for this being to make the community aware of […]
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Melbourne does Mapping for GovHack
The amazing host of our gathering, Olga, wrote this up about last week’s meet: On Wednesday, the 20th of May, Steve and Matt gave a great workshop of open source mapping tools available to suit all of you, mapping enthusiasts’, needs. If you have some data associated with a specific geo-location(s), this workshop would be […]
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Collected sessions on Open Data and Digital Services: Foundations for a New Information Economy
On 13 May Open Knowledge Australia held an event in Canberra on the subject of open data and digital services. A collection of session recordings are provided below. Above – Nicholas Gruen: Chair of Open Knowledge Australia Above- Pia Waugh: Director of Analytics and Discovery Layer, Digital Transformation Office Above – Maree Adshead: CEO, Open […]
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Coder Grrrlz talk to us about GovHack Municipal Data
This week’s OK Melbourne saw Ruth, Alisha and Rosie spoke to us about the data sets that are coming out of the Cities of Melbourne, Greater Geelong and Ballarat for the upcoming GovHack. There looks to be some very rich data coming out of each of the sites, with both interesting cultural and geographical […]
Read moreOpen Data and Digital Services: Foundations for a New Information Economy
If you are in Canberra on the 13th of May then please come along to hear from leading speakers covering subjects related to open data and digital Government service delivery. Learn about the foundation elements of a new information economy that is already connecting public and private sectors throughout Australia and the world. Tickets are available […]
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Open Economy – Scott Ludlam
Tonight at Open Knowledge Melbourne Greens Senator Scott Ludlam came to present Open Economy (more info), a visualisation tool for budget data. The site allows you to drill down into data from the Australian budget to see where money was spent, as well as load data from other sources (e.g. BHP, or Rio Tinto) and […]
Read moreShut up and Hack; GovHack planning
Another week of Shut up and Hack saw lots of industry at the Melbourne meet up. The night started with Ri Liu giving a short presentation about her recent trip to Colombia as a finalist in a data visualisation prize for her work on Close the Gap – if you are interested in DataVis, check […]
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Shut up and Hack: crowdsourcing a blogpost
In the spirit of community involvement, this report on activities at Melbourne’ Shut up and Hack on April 22 has been contributed by attendees Sarah Godwin and Ros Lau. Relative newcomer Sarah worked on Temporal Earth, mapping ANZAC troop movements So this was my 2nd OK Melbourne Meetup. First there was a short talk about […]
Read moreMeet the data owners: VicRoads
VicRoads is one of the most open-data-engaged Victorian government departments and agencies. On Wednesday night, Adrian Porteous, Evan Quick and Phil Reid came to fill us all in on open data activities happening inside VicRoads – and to listen to what the community is looking for next. Need some data? They’re all ears – try one of […]
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