Best Visualisation

Winning entry

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  "Grid Watch", by Jeremy Arnold

  An interactive info-graphic with map that shows power usage by Region and Grid Exit Points (Substations) for 2010. Visualizing key information about the national grid, that was previously only available in spreadsheets and zip files, and combining it from CSV extracts from the Electricity Authorities Centralized Dataset (CDS) web interface.

  Grid Watch (http://www.gridwatch.co.nz)

All entries

• "Visitors to Aotearoa", by Stephen Blackheath

  A data visualization that shows the numbers of visitors to Aotearoa by country over time.

  http://hip-to-be-square.com/~blackh/mash/

• "Tax Receipt 2010", by Amanda Dorrell & Nick Malcolm

  This simple but powerful visualisation shows how your tax dollars are spent. Enter your income, and the site calculates how much tax you pay, itemised by government department, based on the allocations announced in the budget.

  http://tax.southgatelabs.com

• "Rough it - NZ", by Scott Cartwright

  Its time to 'Rough it' New Zealand! Using the Google map as a reference toggle between differing layers of the map to discover awesome things. Toggling layers will expose the unique New Zealand features that will aid you do 'Rough' outdoors type things - in a choice New Zealand fashion.

  http://www.isthegameon.co.nz/roughitnz/rough-it-nz.html

• "Grid Watch", by Jeremy Arnold

  An interactive info-graphic with map that shows power usage by Region and Grid Exit Points (Substations) for 2010. Visualizing key information about the national grid, that was previously only available in spreadsheets and zip files, and combining it from CSV extracts from the Electricity Authorities Centralized Dataset (CDS) web interface.

  http://www.gridwatch.co.nz

• "New Zealand Natural Environment Visualization", by Di Zhou (Joe)

  The website is my first attempt to integrate DOC's natural environment data sets with online, interactive Google maps, Youtube videos, Panoramio photos, Twitter and Wikipedia to help visualize, contextualize and understand our relationship with New Zealand natural environment.

  http://www.geodatamashups.com/

• "Roll Call", by Breccan McLeod-Lundy, Kelly Cheesman, Daniel Sherson, Harry Silver

  Each year up to 10,000 young people in New Zealand leave school with little or no formal qualifications. This visualisation tracks the group of students who would have started in 2004 and finished in 2008 to gain insight into those who left along the way and when they left.

  http://roll-call.co.nz

• "Open Force", by James Hancock

  Its a bit like a in car navigator, it mashes Railway Crossings, Roads, known crash areas, Traffic Lights and Schools. It also uploads force data over .65g, so that we can generate a force map. Soon we will be able to see where and when hard braking or swerving occurs, when cars understeer or oversteer. Users will be able to make their own driving safer using collective observations in real time and retrospect, from accelerometers, statistics and people. This requires saturation to be truly effective so please download a free Alpha version and enjoy driving safely.

  http://pastedtomyblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post.html

• "Hutli", by Galen King, Darryn Soper, Kylea Parker, Leo Wolff

  Hutli is the fun, social way to share experiences and gain information about New Zealand huts. Showing hut locations and information from across New Zealand, Hutli allows you to easily discover new huts and share your adventures using Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.

  http://hutli.co.nz

• "MashBlock", by Cameron Prebble

  MashBlock is a tool to visualise demographic data from the 2006 Census for 66 Territorial Authorities, 2000 Area Units, and over 48000 Meshblocks.

  http://www.mashblock.co.nz

• "Baby Names New Zealand", by Michal Hempel

  Baby Names New Zealand draws on official data gathered over the past decade by Statistics New Zealand and the Department of Internal Affairs to give users the perfect graphic tools to track the popularity of names, right here, right now and we promise, no pink and blue.

  http://michal.webfactional.com/mix/babynames/index.htm

• "NZ Walks Information", by Daniel Pietzsch

  All New Zealand walking tracks on a map. You can browse and search for walking tracks and can get information on where a track is (including the exact path), how long it is and what the elevation profile looks like.

  http://nzwalksinfo.co.nz/

• "Destmapper", by Paul Hunkin

  This web application lets you visualise the places that you can fly in New Zealand and all around the world for a budget. It lets you ask the question "If I have $n, where can I go?"

  http://destmapper.com

• "Environmental data mashup", by Generis Software Ltd

  We have put together a mashup that takes the Environmental source data from the DOC and NIWA websites in order to made it available to the small voluntary organisations who protect and look after our conservation estate. They then have a database to record their activity and to visually view their activity in a map against the DOC GIS data. They in turn make their data available to scientists and DOC data analysts so that serious research can be done on the data.

  http://www.agilecloud.com/video/mashup.html

• "Zephyr", by Aman Pilgrim and James Guthrie, Shift

  With Zephyr you can locate Department of Conservation huts all over NZ and then delve into the historical climate records for the closest weather station, finding out what conditions have been like at any given point for up to 10 years previous.

  http://mash.shiftbeta.net/