<div dir="ltr">Thanks Mark - useful datasets.<div><br></div><div>While I'm not sure of the constraints on your SAT, what sort of data exploration and visualisation tools are people using? Some of those sources are close to "big data" - are tools like Tableau and Many Eyes in common use?<div><br><div>Ken</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Here are some dataset sources you might want to play with in preparation for the 2006 ITI SAT...<br></div><div><br></div><div><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://data.gov.au" target="_blank">data.gov.au</a> – includes data
from many locations, groups and topics, including </li>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal">a National Public Toilet
Map.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">overseas arrivals and
departures</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">taxation statistics</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Victorian ice skating centres</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">the Victorian Fishing
Atlas</li>
</ul>
<li class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">data.melbourne.vic.gov.au</a> –
the City of Melbourne shares its data, e.g.</li>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal">parking bay sensor
recordings</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">tree canopy data</li>
<li class="MsoNormal">pedestrian sensor counts</li>
</ul>
<li class="MsoNormal">Australian Bureau of
Statistics – <a href="http://abs.gov.au" target="_blank">abs.gov.au</a> – tailored for students, with census data
available in Excel format and tables.</li>
</ul>
<p>The ABS tells us that in 1901 Australia there were 2,192 indigenous
men aged 85 and over. In 2001, there were 81,922. Such rich and reliable data
could yield a <i>really</i> interesting
hypothesis or two.</p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Australian National Data Service
(<a href="http://ands.org.au" target="_blank">ands.org.au</a>) - </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">a set of web pages describing data collections
produced by or relevant to Australian researchers</span>.<span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="http://data.csiro.au" target="_blank">data.csiro.au</a> –
very detailed, very technical, very big science data store.</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://govpond.org" target="_blank">govpond.org</a> – searches over 3,400 Australian governments’
data sets for you</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Atlas of Living Australia – <a href="http://ala.org.au" target="_blank">ala.org.au</a> – sharing
biodiversity knowledge. Do you have a hypothesis about Brushtail possums,
perhaps? This is the place for you.</span><span style="background-color:yellow"></span></span></li>
</ul><div>Cheers.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">I, Mark Kelly, am entirely responsible for the rambling verbiage I spew forth.</span><br></div><div><div><font size="1">Have I offended anyone with this post? I would not be surprised.</font></div><div><font size="1">If offended, please whinge to me at the email address above. </font></div><div><font size="1">Please leave poor Kevork alone. It is not his fault.</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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