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Illuminating the Night

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Team Name

Amaltr

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Project Description

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 features from the City of Ballarat data sets and Vic Gov data sets. These features include skate parks, bus shelters, public toilets and graffiti, amongst others.
Through a visual story telling medium (and lots of maps) this project aims to share the story of challenges that Ballarat faces, and how even in a small area community experiences vary dramatically. By understanding the data and how it applies to individual experiences, government bodies can make wise decisions which can benefit everyone. In this case by making a city safer and more liveable at night.
The hope of this project is to visualise data in a human way which is immediately accessible, understandable and applicable in decision making and easily communicated to the community.

Data Story

A number of City of Ballarat data sets and one Vic Gov dataset have been used, alongside general basemap data to create these maps and set the scene.
Quotes have come directly from the Right to the Night data.
BoM sunrise and sunset data was used to associate each safe/unsafe entry in the Right to the Night data with a day/night identifier.

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Team DataSets

Compute Sunrise, Sunset & Twilight Times

Description of Use Used to add Day/Night attributes to the Right to the Night data

Data Set

Ballarat Public Lighting

Description of Use Used to look for relationships between safety and lighting

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VicFreeWiFi Access Point locations

Description of Use Looking for relationships between wifi and safety

Data Set

Bus Shelters in Ballarat

Description of Use Looking for a relationship between bush shelters and safety reports

Data Set

Ballarat Public Toilets

Description of Use Used to look for correlation between public toilet location and safety reports.

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Ballarat Graffiti Defects

Description of Use Although an old dataset, used to look for relationships between graffiti incidents and safety reports

Data Set

Ballarat Tables and Seating

Description of Use Used to look for correlation between tables and seating and safety

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Ballarat Reserves

Description of Use Used to find correlation between reserve location and unsafety

Data Set

Ballarat Skate Parks

Description of Use Used to see if there is a relationship between people feeling unsafe and skate parks.

Data Set

Ballarat Right to the Night

Description of Use Used to understand the nature of discomfort that people experience whilst in Ballarat at night (qualitative data) Used to pin point locations of discomfort

Data Set

Challenge Entries

More than apps and maps: help government decide with data

How can we combine data to help government make their big and small decisions? Government makes decisions every day—with long term consequences such as the location of a school, or on a small scale such as the rostering of helpdesk staff.

Eligibility: Use at least two data sets (at least one from data.gov.au) to help government make a decision that will improve services for people. Any code produced for your entry must be published on github under an open license. If your entry is not software, you will need to show the working behind your use of data along with any calculations and analysis you did. You must indicate which specific government agency (at any level of government) can take action based on your entry.

Go to Challenge | 58 teams have entered this challenge.

Right 2 The Night

How can we help people know *the good, the bad, and the ugly* about public spaces?

Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.

Telling Stories with Data(.Vic)

Accessing any of the datasets on data.vic, this challenge asks participants to extract and tell stories from data. Alternatively how might we facilitate citizens’ own inquiries and investigations via the Victorian Government Open Data Portal?

Go to Challenge | 21 teams have entered this challenge.

Australians' stories

What meaningful ways can we tell the story about what it's like to be an Australian, and in what ways some Australians live very different lives than others? How can we make people more aware of the issues facing themselves and others as they go through life?

Go to Challenge | 34 teams have entered this challenge.

Ballarat Open Innovation Challenge

Innovation comes through freedom and autonomy. How can we combine world data with Ballarat data to make something more?

Eligibility: Must use City of Ballarat data combined with any other open dataset from anywhere in the world

Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.

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