Monday, June 04, 2012

GovHack 2012 Winners

Winning applications of the use of government data, announced at GovHack last night were:
  • Digital Humanities Category:
  • Science Category:
    • Time Capsule: visualise trends in 44 metrics over the last 30 years, sourced from 15 government data sets.
  • Open Government Category:
    • Best Benefit to the ACT Community Award :
    • History in ACTION: Create your own personalised bus tour of Canberra history
    • Best Open Government Award: OpenBudget: government expenditure visualisation tool.

Minor Prize Categories – NSW

  • Best Use of Location Data:
    • Route Me: for getting to where you’re going on the ACT bus system. Integrates Twitter.
  • Best Data Analysis:
  • Best Contribution to Open Data:
    • OpenBudget: government expenditure visualisation tool.
  • Special prize for Sydney:
  • Best Data Visualisation :
    • Time Capsule visualise trends in 44 metrics over the last 30 years, sourced from 15 government data sets.
  • Best Spirit of GovHack Award:

Minor Prize Categories – ACT

Best Use of Location Data (Geospatial) – supported by the Office for Spatial Policy

    • OkCapital: Dating site for finding your ideal city to live in
  • Best Data Analysis:
    • 3D Data on a Mesh : summarise 55,845 data observations from the Bureau of Meteorology in a single picture.
  • Best Contribution to Open Data:
  • Best Augmented Reality Hack – supported by Adobe
  • Best Data Visualisation – awarded by Adobe
  • Best Spirit of GovHack Award:
    • 100 Years iPad application which provides a data visualisation of the past 100 years of rainfall and temperature

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