Opening up to a world of possibilities 🌏
In these troubled times, there is still the possibility of doing good. The world needs more people working on the hard problems - climate, health, democracy - and fewer on ads, betting, crypto, trading. More open source. Re-useable components standing on the shoulder of previous generations, transparent and accountable. More 3rd places to continue weaving community fabric. Repair cafes, libraries, bike workshops, … Shorter food loops. Closing the distance between producers and consumers. Everyone becoming producer themselves. More participation in democratic process than just the ballot box. Participatory budgets, community decision-making, … Less energy needed. Better insulated houses, services closer to home. Lower carbon transport options. 3rd vehicles (hybrid car/bike), electric bikes for local journeys, … Low-tech solutions. Circular economy at scale. ...

AURIN+ARUP hackathon: ChargeQuest (1st prize)
The study developed a roll-out strategy for the provision of on-street parking bays based on a hierarchy of parking bay suitability as a function of net solar potential and existing supply deficit. The product of this study could be used by policymakers and planners to inform decision-making regarding the provision of EV charging points across the District. Thanks to our wonderful 1-day team members: Yaguang (Ozzy) Tao (RMIT), Nayomi Ranamuka (RMIT), Prawal Lohani (RMIT), Bernice van Dyk (AIRE Consulting) ...

Smart meter data 3D heatmap
Part of an experiment in using three.js and color accessibility, this data visualisation offers an immersive 3D representation of smart meter over a month, allowing to feel the data in all its dimensions: hourly and daily variations, peaks and troughs of consumptions, anomalies and routines.

Twitter ego-network
Exploring the users following a given Twitter user (CircularEconomy), this data visualisation groups similar followers into broad communities: corporate responsibility, international NGOs & think tanks, startup and thought leaders, environmental activists, …

Wind farm 3D model
Part of an experiment in using three.js, this data visualisation recreates the layout of a Victorian wind farm, along with the terrain textured 4 ways (1 per season).

Solar Atlas
Developed in response to a competitive tender by the NSW government to provide added value for open data, the Solar Atlas is a way to assess roof suitability for solar PV, at scale (locality / region) and at a high level of granularity allowed by LiDAR data(30cm). The Solar Atlas platform is a collaboration with UrbanEP’s Nathan Toovey and Nathan Malin. Their website has an extensive write-up of the project.

PacBike
For Melbourne’s White Night 2014, we set out to illustrate the dataset of the Melbourne Bike Share scheme. Each docking station of the scheme reports the number of available docks on a (near) real-time basis. We tracked this data over several month and overlaid it on a grid-like representation of the Hoddle grid - those were the ghosts 👻. A wifi router was setup to allow members of the public to control PacMan from their phone, eat (healthy) fruit along the Melbourne laneways and avoid these pesky ghosts by predicting the most used bike routes in the CBD. ...

3D solar yield simulation
Part of a project for the Sustainable Energy Systems course at RMIT, this data visualisation quantifies the solar potential of an unusual roof configuration (a retirement home) by running irradiance simulation in the EnergyPlus engine, on a building envelope modelled in SketchUp.

empower.me
Developed while studying Sustainable Energy Systems at RMIT, and with the help of a social entrepreneurship grant from RMIT Social Entreprise group, this platform aims at visualising data that by-large remains invisible in our society: energy data. These visualisations are linking the personal - smart meter data - to the collective - national energy market and solar data. Smart meter data can be uploaded to the platform for an interactive heatmap visualisation, revealing patterns and anomalies. ...

apps4NSW hackathon: Bike Community Hub (2nd prize)
This entry to the apps4NSW hackathon was lead by the idea of combining multiple datasets of interest to the cycling community, including bike routes and reported cycling accidents (VicRoads) along with the ability for cyclists to contribute their own “near misses” and safety hotspots. It came from the insight that most cycling accidents or near misses are not reported hence there is a knowledge gap in cycling infrastructure. Local representatives were also highlighted for community members to voice their concerns to them. ...