Best visualisation, sponsored by Boost New Media

Grid Watch by Jeremy Arnold

Description and content sources

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

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.

Electricity Authorities Centralized Dataset (CDS)
The Electricity Industry Participation Code 2010 - Part 12(.72) - requires public access to the CDS.
Bing Maps API - Microsoft - Developers License
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/licensing.aspx
jQuery (www.jquery.org) - JavaScript library - Dual license MIT, GPLv2 (open source)
Tile5 (www.tile5.org) - Mapping JavaScript library - MIT license (open source)
Fonts - typekit (http://typekit.com/) - mixed - see link on lower left of website

Judges’ comments

Grid Watch made good use of a number of different visualisation techniques and made the most effort to link values with geography. It is well executed and responsive and did a great job of taking raw data and presenting it in a way that made the information within the data clearer and ultimately more engaging. We look forward to seeing it extended and further developed, for example putting more work in how the data is presented. Overall we felt this was a great entry.

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

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