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Open Weather Data with the Weather Chaser

Tonight at Open Knowledge Melbourne, John Barratt gave us an overview of all the open weather data available. John runs a few sites, including TrendsMap (commercial services identifying patterns in Twitter data), The Weather Chaser (a decade’s worth of official weather data, with interesting analysis and discovery interfaces), and Will I Get Wet, a localised rain predictor. […]

How much Gov would a GovHack hack if a GovHack could hack Gov

I think the correct answer is that a GovHack would hack so much Gov they wouldn’t know how much Gov they hacked. Although the 2014 GovHack the annual report attempts to cover the answer in a little more detail. The answer for 2015 will come to light on the weekend of 3 July and the National GovHack […]

Melbourne OK Weekly

Last night Ross Gillott from the Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commission joined us to explain their dataset. It was a very interesting presentation, there is so much potential in the data they have. After being separated from the ATO in 2012, the data that the ACNC was provided was scrappy and poorly kept. […]

Australia’s Open Data Census goes Beta

Australia’s Regional Open Data Census was launched as a beta web-site on International Open Data Day (21 Feb 2015). The census is a crowd-sourced measure of the openness of key data published by Australia’s states and territories. Openness is based on the answers provided to nine questions. Anyone can submit an assessment and an editorial […]

Australian Activities on International Open Data Day, 21 February

International Open Data day falls on 21 February and there will be a range of practical ways people can help out within an Australian context. Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and […]

Open data in Queensland – lots of planning and 705 state datasets available

The Queensland Government has recently released two strategic reports that emphasise the future agenda for open data in this state. After public consultation, in December 2013 the government released a working draft of the Queensland 30 year vision (PDF) for comment. The governance section of the plan highlights the need for localised and more flexible […]