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TM Tim McNamara Thu 15 May 2014 9:27PM Public Seen by 13

There 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?

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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

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Stuart Yeates Thu 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.

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Thomas Lumley Thu 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/