GovHack 2012 Winners

Winning applications of the use of government data, announced at GovHack last night were:

• Digital Humanities Category:
• History in ACTION: Create your own personalised bus tour of Canberra history.

• Photo Search: Australian history through historic images.

• A Day in the Life: Combining archive and statistical data.

• Science Category:

• WeatheredOak: API for the ACORNSat historical weather.

• Safe Route: monitor bush fires in a region.

• Time Capsule: visualise trends in 44 metrics over the last 30 years, sourced from 15 government data sets.

• Open Government Category:
• WeatheredOak: API for the ACORNSat historical weather.

• SECOND PRIZE:
• Photo Search Australian history through historic images.
• A Day in the Life Combining archive and statistical data.

• 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:
• Is Your Polly Smarter Than a 5th Grader by team: Analysis of the speeches of MPs to asses their language skills.
• Best Contribution to Open Data:
• OpenBudget: government expenditure visualisation tool.
• Special prize for Sydney:
• Photo Search Australian history through historic images.
• 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:
• The Happiness Index:s Gross National Happiness, which measures quality of life or social progress in more holistic terms than GDP.

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:
• WeatheredOak API for the ACORNSat historical weather.
• Best Augmented Reality Hack – supported by Adobe
• History in ACTION Create your own personalised bus tour of Canberra history.
• Best Data Visualisation – awarded by Adobe
• Climate vs Jewellery wearable visualisation of the ACORN-SAT data provided
• Best Spirit of GovHack Award:
• 100 Years iPad application which provides a data visualisation of the past 100 years of rainfall and temperature