Entries to Australians' stories

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Remember When

Creating an application which unveils the hidden story behind historical buildings, events and locations of significance. User location is tracked via GPS and as they approach a location marked on the map, it will be 'unlocked'. Once unlocked, a pop-up with information about the location will be ...

Go to Project | Remember Team

Our Stories

The Our Stories app is a Wikipedia like app that allows people to view Australian stories. It is allowing these Australian stories to be more open and allowing them to be used by others for educational or personal use.

Go to Project | Jimmy and even more insignifacants

SoloNav

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

Watch Out What's About?

* Our project aims to be a service to Australians living their lives, telling their stories through social posts to help people to be more aware of the issues facing themselves. It aims at improving the safety and peace of mind of people in and about our great, vibrant urban, regional and open sp...

Go to Project | Data @ Heart

Orana Welcome Home

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

Everyday Active

### Overview We live in congested cities and can struggle to find the time to keep ourselves healthy. Why can't a little exercise be a normal part of our everyday lives? ### Commuting Commuting by car is both sedentary and contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Research has also shown that...

Go to Project | Death Clock

Our Place

Our Place is a virtual mural that has been created with data collated from various data sets. The aim is to create a reflection of individual community issues such as homelessness, littering, air pollution and even the possibility of disasters and the communities resilience can be displayed. T...

Go to Project | The Casuals

Project 139

Aggregation and tidying of the database hosted by LibrariesTas to provide a more easily usable database for future analysts. Beyond this, there is also the website (WIP) that will provide a fun and interactive way for people to learn about the voyages that came to Tasmania in the 19th Century.

Go to Project | Mr A. C. G. Drake

Correlation Explorer

## 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

Trendhound

Trendhound lets users search a keyword of interest across Twitter, Google News and public datasets. The dashboard displays relevant tweets across the country and relevant news articles. It highlights facts at the states and territory level from relevant datasets. It allows users to quickly ...

Go to Project | DIISplay

Cykel

Finding a common link between Ballarat and Denmark - cycling. A game that helps you explore the differences and similarities of the two places, by playing a challenging (and silly) game.

Go to Project | #overachievers52

Yerrabi

Yerrabi is intended to encourage people to be more active by taking away reservations about convenience, challenge and timing. By utilising geospatial data supplied by the ACT Government in addition to crowdsourced data, Yerrabi allows Canberrans the option to either follow known trails or ’blaze...

Go to Project | data d00ds

Boundless connections

Our poject aims to bridge communities together and encourage active lifestyles by paring carers/volunteers with aged and disable.

Go to Project | In time

Ctrl-Access

**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

The Spirit Lives

Marking 100 years since our involvement in the First World War, the Anzac Centenary is a time to honour the service and sacrifice of our original ANZAC. By using machine learning for colourising and 3D modelling portraits, we bring life to the past. "The Spirit Lives". Our application allows u...

Go to Project | Living Spirit

The Australia Game

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

Where the Peeps

Building Wi-Fi usage heatmaps Trying to trace people's movements based on the access points they connect to.

Go to Project | Team 347

CouncilPlus

<br />&nbsp; ## ❓The problem We're the Codefather team from Terem Technologies. With CouncilPlus we want to solve the problem of open source data access regarding the correlation between funding, services and societal outcomes across local governments. <br /> Currently, inf...

Go to Project | The Codefather

Migration Blues

The Migration Blues project aims to convert Australian Bureau of Statistics data into a visual and audio format, i.e. to represent numbers by color and notes. Senses were developed earlier than analytical abilities during the evolution process. As such, the communication with humans via senses i...

Go to Project | Migration Blues

“Backwards and Forwards”- South Australia Edition

A board game designed to help people interact with the local historical figures with intriguing life facts, all meshed together in a ‘race-to-the-end” type board game.

Go to Project | Bachmanns and Fulwoods

My local story

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

EnVisible City

The problem: How to engage communities and citizens to experience quantitative and qualitative data on the tangible and sensory aspects of a city during different times? What makes a city a great place in which to live, work and relax? Sophisticated metrics have been developed on the compon...

Go to Project | Live+Smart Lab

Care Gov (beta)

Care.gov.au supports young carers to meet their responsibilities and build community whilst telling their story to government and service providers.

Go to Project | Oakton

Bubbles

Bubbles creates algorithmically generated, data driven narratives to pop the information and empathy bubbles that exist within today’s digital, atomised society by generating interactive, game-ified, empathy creating narratives.

Go to Project | Team TeamTeam

Illuminating the Night

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

Connected - Councils Connecting Community

'Connected' is a cost effective platform that councils can provide to residents, linking them directly with community groups, clubs and support services in their local area. The 'Connected' concept takes the form of an interactive, self-serve kisok that will be hosted in council libraries so t...

Go to Project | Just We Three

FaceMap

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

#qldanzac

Create a showcase of WW1 Content (QLD focus) using modern applications to help connect current and future generations of Queenslanders connect with the legacy of WW1.

Go to Project | BigDataBuddies

GoGoViz

*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

The mystery of history

An app that scan Qr-codes and gives you the history and current information on the scanned sight

Go to Project | L.E.S.S. is more 1

Age-Friendly Canberra

Please view our Github page for a comprehensive project profile: https://github.com/ma-al/gh18-p77 - The Age-Friendly Planning Tool maps government data on population projections for the Canberra region and assists users in identifying areas requiring increased support and development, now ...

Go to Project | Project 77

Shaping Australian Stories

Compare, share and connect. Empowering Australians to form an understanding of how they compare to others in their demographic, connect to relevant services and share their story. In an age of social media, it seems as if everyone is kicking goals and it can sometimes feel as if you are falling...

Go to Project | TeamX

Historial Mirror

Australia’s history should be acknowledged and remembered, it can inspire a nation, educate next generation, also let travelers, immigrants better understand the background of Australia. In order to engage people with ANZAC, we designed a website let our next generation, immigrants, traveler...

Go to Project | Team Strawberry

MyAustralia

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

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