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
## Objectives This project integrates spatiotemporal statistical models and machine learning methods for predicting future ocean climate and environment scenarios and the decision making for marine ecosystems. ## Methods (1) Geostatistical methods are used for spatial prediction of variables...
Go to Project | Future Ocean
We propose a Dynamic Metro Engine to help governments make data-driven decisions to improve public transport services for citizens. This engine consumes live public transport feeds of real time bus data, metrocard validations and GTFS network information. It will provide tools which can be use...
Go to Project | Digital Bureaucrats
SolarAS has written a website to assist renters and landlords cooperate with the help of real-estate agents to build and maintain high-quality, high-voltage blackout resistant solar systems within their homes. We hope to tap in to the strong enthusiasm and community spirit, business and governme...
Go to Project | SolarAS
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
We will focus on the utilisation of roads and transport in the Queensland State Government level, primarily on the Gold Coast where there have been recent investment in new transport options in light rail and bikeways. By understanding the difference in traffic levels for districts with more acce...
Go to Project | GCLink
J.A.G (Job And Growth) is a project designed around making sense of employment and higher education data. The project creates a visualisation in the form of an infographic for the viewer based on the selected State\Territory and\or industry.
Go to Project | ImEmployable
Everyone's life is always busy. You have to take care of your family, your finances, your jobs and relationships. The last thing you want to worry about is contacting agencies for help and find out that you have to wait on the phone line to even talk to someone to solve your issue. Our solutio...
Go to Project | Six to Fix
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
The Right to the Night project is aimed at creating safer public spaces for women in the Ballarat CBD. Between February and May this year, The City of Ballarat and partners asked women to contribute their perspectives of safety across the CBD. During the GovHack weekend, we're investigating ...
Go to Project | Team 337
Using MyVic and data.gov.au data to find how governments can best make efficient decisions to increase local employment per suburb (ie. transport, infrastructure, investment, industries).
Go to Project | Potato = Not Potato
In the last decade, terabytes of information has been collected from various industries, not to mention historical data that has been collected for many decades. Organizations seem to be unsure of how they wish to use this data however, in the questions they wish to ask and the visualizations the...
Go to Project | Team 193
Over 110,000 people in Australia are bankrupt. Whether they share it or not, each one of us knows someone who has been affected…Life doesn’t always go to plan. So we pulled together a team of data scientists, lawyers, coders and engineers to research the problem and create a solution which we cal...
Go to Project | Team insolvit
Point Cook has been one of the fastest growing suburbs in Australia, but has limited bus coverage. This is similar case across multiple areas in Wyndham and other growth areas across Victoria. PTV revises bus routes and introduces new routes on a regular basis, but the coverage of bus routes for ...
Go to Project | Wynners
##Problem Statement Every year more than 30,000 Australians become insolvent, owing creditors more than 7 billion dollars. Insolvency grew 7% in the 2017-18 financial year - double the rate of bankruptcies. The reasons for insolvency are complex and varied, but impact everyone in our communi...
Go to Project | Hard Pivot
Big Backyard is a map-app that will allow people travelling around Australia to make use of open data to locate information about attractions at ever-changing locations that are not captured by standard platforms like TripAdvisor. Map your route on the app, then select “what’s near me” to see n...
Go to Project | G.E.O. Janes
# Objectives - We want to better inform citizens about the most suitable way of going out. - With the power of chatbot we can provide suggestions in natural language. - We can provide suggestions for disable people as well. # Functions - A web application provides navigatio...
Go to Project | The Interesting Company
<p>This project is a visualisation representing the Australian budget by the dollars flowing to different departments, representing the physical movement of dollars on a map-like inferface involving different government portfolio areas. <BR>  A project for Govhack 2018 that analyses the impact we have on the environment using open data to help aid in decision making.
Go to Project | IWasTheOnlyYouth
Crashboard is an interactive dashboard designed to take the guesswork out of decision making when local and state governments invest into road safety upgrades. Crashboard assists key decision makers in making data-driven decisions based on the identification of crash hotspots in varying weather a...
Go to Project | as.numeric
Our project aims to make it easier for and organisations (specifically the ATO) to target underutilized locations to set up their business (or tax help centre).
Go to Project | MelbourneGo
Littering is an issue that every Australian is aware of, and yet it continues to be a problem despite the millions of dollars spent in clean up costs each year. Alitternation is a web application powered by government data that aims to give Australians both the knowledge and motivation to cl...
Go to Project | alitternation
**We built an AI-based platform that uses information about an individual to quantity their relative insolvency risk.** Their relative risk is expressed as a number which indicates how many times less/more likely than average a given individual is to become insolvent. We also used this mode...
Go to Project | Insolvency Oracle
<p>Thick black smoke chokes the city, as fire moves in from the West. Emergency vehicles race to the fire front, as residents, schools and businesses prepare to evacuate. As embers begin to fall on the outer suburbs, everyone's next decisions are crucial.</p> <p>Situational awareness is paramo...
Go to Project | Null VRiables
## The problem: Over time, Australia has seen waste generation increase, but recycling stagnate. This has significant impacts on the environment - and cost of service. The cost per tonne for kerbside waste handling is twice as high for garbage as it is for recyclables.We have also found in our d...
Go to Project | I adopted a puppy today but I'm still here hacking
In urban emergency situations it can be challenging for first responders to coordinate their information with each other, and with the local community, to identify the safest evacuation routes out of the area. <BR>  properties. The aim is to display the markers on the map which makes it easier for the user to compare various suburbs and plan their inv...
Go to Project | Vision
Our application provides a platform for community consultation about public facilities and points of interest. It provides data on existing infrastructure and allows users to create additional observations. bVocal also allows users to engage in Geo-location specific dialogue to promote community ...
Go to Project | Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
CrowdQuests is a game which has quests and missions to encourage physical activity and learning about points of interests. The quests are designed for: <br/> * Learning about locations * Crowdsourcing data updates * Crowdsourcing new information * Knowledge about problems * Encourag...
Go to Project | Happy Goats
*Smarter school zones for connected communities* **My Local School** uses open data and open source software to generate alternative school intake zones. These zones are cohesive community regions that take into account the freeways, busy roads, railway lines and other barriers to travel. H...
Go to Project | My Local School
Melbourne's population is growing with a bold prediction to surpass 5 million by 2021 and past 8 million by 2050. The focus is currently on transport systems such as rail and road, but what about foot traffic? <br> The Marauders App is a crowd-sourced application that connects everyday explor...
Go to Project | Codefefe
Scaling your SMB (Small and Medium-sized Businesses) is hard work. It's difficult to ascertain if a particular business district or the local corner shops is the best place to move to or best place to set up a new store. Understanding your customer where your customers are is one thing, understan...
Go to Project | Team 36
Imagine if your politicians were more data driven. Imagine if you could make sure your needs and your preferences were right there in front of your MP so every decision they made were backed by facts and evidence instead of being influenced by lobbyists and personal biases. This app puts your nee...
Go to Project | Zero c00l
Building Wi-Fi usage heatmaps Trying to trace people's movements based on the access points they connect to.
Go to Project | Team 347
<br /> ## ❓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
The Happy Parking! project aims to make the most use of the open-source data from government solving practical problems and tell stories of urban development according to historical car park data. ### Part 1 Parkers aim to create a real-time web app for end-users, helping drivers to find a ...
Go to Project | Pakers
We will use historic data sets that cover parking duration/occupancy, pedestrian traffic, congestion maps, and air quality, to establish a base line for congestion in the Noosa’s Hastings Street area. We will then develop vehicle counters to collect data in real time, to provide a live feed on ca...
Go to Project | The Hackermen
Car park unknown. aims to use parking sensor data as a springboard to determine in real-time where parking violations are occurring in the Melbourne CBD. It also assists the public by helping drivers to locate a free car park based on the historical data from the last 4 years. We have designed a...
Go to Project | Unlucky Magician
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
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
The project aims to empower government, companies, social groups and individuals to make their well informed big decisions through existing Gov data. 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 hel...
Go to Project | Climatic
<p>Explosions of colour rip through the night sky, emanating from a single source and branching like lightning during a sultry summer storm. The bright flashes lighting up the sky like a...speed camera? </p> <p> As a rule, art is the use of technical ability and imagination to express the bea...
Go to Project | Null VRiables
The Darwin Heatsync Project is all about harnessing the power of citizen science to drive solutions for a cooler, healthier, more connected and more economically viable Darwin.
Go to Project | Heat Syncs
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
Our project aims to provide greater access to government services by reducing the demand for face to face appointments at government services. File corrupted, original full length video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf0BUEq4ev0
Go to Project | Weekend warriors
'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
My Two Cents is about you having the voice to be heard and enabling others to do the same. Have you ever had an issue with a local service but no where to turn? Some people do not know off the top of their head which council or department manages services, we want to change that. With My Two Cen...
Go to Project | Fighting Mongooses
Our focus was the challenge of identifying where the ATO should locate their Tax Help Centers. This project also addressed the challenge of combining data sets and using open data to help governments answer questions.
Go to Project | Nostradata
Our product is an app, called HealthHack, that is integrated onto a smartwatch, for example a Fitbit or Apple Watch, that monitors health parameters including heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rates. The user’s medical profile is created in the app as well as being synchronized with thei...
Go to Project | Running on Caffeine
My Bruce Highway anti-congestion scheme - this is a data story of cables and cars.
Go to Project | Dazed and Confused
Entrepreneurs face an incredible amount of blockers that are pushing them away from realising their vision. They have to go through different processes to set up their business, get funding or find resources. We want to build a platform that will automate most of these tasks using Artificial Int...
Go to Project | mbae
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
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
Go to Project | Get Active USC
There is a need to improve government and residents interactions to have a both way communication. There are many data collection points for government data but still there is no dedicated social network platform for government-residents interaction and decision making For example, if Kens...
Go to Project | micents
When it comes to any disorder or disability treatment, one size does not fit all. Millions of patients who will be diagnosed with any particular disorder, no two will be exactly the same plus the patients come from different background, age, gender, lifestyle, support so on which they need person...
Go to Project | Health Hackers