Open data, powerful laptops and the public
Tim McNamara Thu 15 May 2014 9:27PMPublicSeen by 13There are lots of interesting data sets, often provided by NZ's science orgs (see data.govt.nz). Could they be presented in a way that would enable mash ups and exploration?
Stuart YeatesThu 15 May 2014 10:12PM
What I think would be useful would be a site that (a) cached and archived the data (particularly the 'available on request' ones from https://data.govt.nz) (b) included data from slightly broader range of orgs and (c) did validation, summarisation and repackaging.
Thomas LumleyThu 15 May 2014 10:30PM
We have a PhD student working on automated tools for getting NZ official data into analysable form -- a lot of the nominally 'computer readable' stuff is Excel files with prettiness added.
Also, rOpenSci is worth a look http://ropensci.org/
Pierre Roudier ·Thu 15 May 2014 9:34PM
For data exploration: NIWA has been modifying QGIS (the leading open-source GIS) to include its web services: http://www.niwa.co.nz/our-services/software/quantum-map