GovHack

GovHack is an open data hackathon, run annually by volunteers, focussed on unlocking the value in open data published by government. It has been run by a team of volunteers and grown from a small data mashup event to an international competition that brings over 3000 people together to innovate, collaborate and apply their creative skills to open government data. GovHack is for coders, designers, story tellers, activists, analysts, journalists and anyone that wants to tap into the vast amount of information made available by governments.

Data Links

Australian Government Data

• https://data.gov.au/
• http://www.abs.gov.au/

Western Australian State Government Data

• https://data.wa.gov.au/

International Data Sites

• https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets
• https://www.data.gov/
• http://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data
• https://data.gov.uk/
• https://www.data.govt.nz/
• https://registry.opendata.aws/
• https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/

Agriculture

• http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/data

Climate

• http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/

Crime

• https://www.police.wa.gov.au/Crime/CrimeStatistics#/start
• https://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/about-us/statistics-publications/statistics/

Education

• https://www.education.gov.au/student-data
• http://det.wa.edu.au/schoolinformation/detcms/navigation/statistical-reports/

Environment

• http://www.environment.gov.au/about-us/environmental-information-data/open-data

Health and Welfare

• https://data.worldbank.org/
• https://www.who.int/data/gho/
• https://www.aihw.gov.au/about-our-data/accessing-australian-government-data
• https://www.myhospitals.gov.au/about-the-data/download-data

Science and Research

• https://data.csiro.au/dap/home?execution=e1s1

Transport

• http://portal-mainroads.opendata.arcgis.com/
• https://www.rsc.wa.gov.au/Statistics

Help

• https://govhack-toolkit.readthedocs.io/
• https://github.com/Landgate/govhack/blob/master/README.md
• https://toolkit.data.wa.gov.au/hc/en-gb
• https://toolkit.data.wa.gov.au/hc/en-gb/articles/115001989673-A-brief-introduction-to-discovering-government-data
• https://toolkit.data.wa.gov.au/hc/en-gb/categories/115001102388-Developers-Entrepreneurs
• https://toolkit.data.wa.gov.au/hc/en-gb/categories/115001102408-Data-Professionals
• https://toolkit.data.wa.gov.au/hc/en-gb/articles/115009837448-How-To-Using-Geospatial-Data-Web-Services-in-QGIS
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRp1kcYNF-IWvv4rIv42Plg/videos

Please note some downloads to data on data.wa.gov.au will require you to register a free account