Space-Time Research have developed two entries for the apps4NSW competition (for New South Wales, Australia) using SuperVIEW. The apps4NSW competition, like the Mashup Australia and Apps For Democracy competitions, invited the public to submit ideas and applications that would benefit the citizens of New South Wales.
I’m excited about our two applications because they are genuinely useful online interactive publications of complex data that everyone will benefit from. Our Why Australians Travel application presents a dataset from Tourism Research Australia that has not been made available to the public in an interactive way before. It also includes advanced visualization in the form of a Motion Chart (Gapminder-style) which we’re very excited by! The motion chart can tell a story with data over time that you simply don’t see in static tables or reports.
The How Safe Is Your Suburb 2.0 application provides NSW Crime data in an interactive way, allowing users to analyse relative crime rates ot absolute crime rates by suburb. This application is supported by one of our newest features - metadata -where explanations about the data are provided to the user to help them understand the meaning of the data.
Go check our applications out and vote for us if you like them! And if you have any feedback on our entries please don’t hesitate to make a comment on our blog here.