Our Goal:
Australia's international education activities generate over $15 billion of export income annually. The education industry is important for Australian and the well being of the international students is the key point to tighten the relationship. Our hack aims to help tackle the seven key issues which identified by the NSW Government for enhancing the well being of the international students.
Novel Data Sets Generated:
1. One-to-one travel zone (TZ) to LGA mapping.
2. TZ-to-TZ travel time via the mode of public transportation.
3. TZ-to-School travel time via the mode of public transportation.
4. TZ-to-School travel time via the mode of push bike.
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Major Achievements:
1. Public transportation time.
2. Meshed multiple data sets from 8 agencies (and potential to include more!).
3. Create the liveability metric for international students.
4. Our website is designed to tackle the seven key issues which are identified by the NSW Government to impact the well-being of international students.
List of Data Sets Were Meshed:
1. Travel zone spatial data from Australian Bureau of Statistics.
2. GTFS Timetable data from Transportation of NSW.
3. ASGS 2011 spatial and population data from Australian Bureau of Statistics.
4. Rent & sale report from NSW Department of Housing.
5. Record crime data base - NSW from Department of Justice & Attorney General.
6. Public libraries in NSW directory from NSW State Library.
7. Public health care facilities from NSW Ministry of Health.
8. Clinics, doctors, grocery and supermarkets location from Openstreet map.
Future Potentials:
There are a couple features that we'd like to add (had we have just a few more extra hours.....)
1. The frame work of our hack is easy to adjust for different target users (e.g. add childcare, primary education information for families of overseas talents)
2. Add the community diversity profile and other service facilities.
3. Flicker integration with travel zones.
4. Better events integration with travel zones.
5. Multiple languages support.