Welcome to ABS βetaWorks!
ßetaworks is your chance to participate in shaping the future of the ABS online. We invite you to explore the new design concepts we publish and give us your thoughts!
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The aim of the ASGS Boundaries Online Phase 1 project is to enable users to quickly locate, visualise, compare and access basic information about ASGS boundaries at various scales. Read more..... |
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The ABS has developed an interactive framework using Prezi to help people better understand ABS crime and justice statistics. Read more... |
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Increasingly information produced by the ABS is geospatially enabled. This allows advanced users to analyse our data using maps and charts, and gain an insight into how the different areas of Australia differ. However, not all users of ABS data have the capability to create their own maps. The Mapping Dashboard aims to provide these more casual users with the ability to perform limited, interactive geospatial analysis of our data. Read more... |
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Measures of Australia's Progress (MAP) helps Australians address the question, 'Is life in Australia getting better?'. To help it do this we're planning on enhancing MAP's website for it's next full scale release in late 2013. Take a look at our mock-ups and let us know if you like the new layout and functionality. Read more... |
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Access to large collections of data, such as that held by the ABS, can by stymied by an inability to find specific items of interest. With data items available from multiple surveys, for the user who just wants to find out specific facts our larger collections can be an intimidating maze. The Quick Data Selection Tool hopes to solve that problem for at least one publication, the Migrant Data Matrices. Read more... |
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The Classification Explorer is a prototype data visualisation tool meant to facilitate the exploration of the many hierarchical classifications the ABS maintains. Read more... |
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Measures of Australia's Progress (MAP) helps Australians address the question, 'Is life in Australia getting better?', and is developing it's website structure and functionality for the 2013 release. We have prepared 3 sample web pages to demonstrate the planned direction of these enhancements. Read more... |
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Australian Social Trends (AST) are trialling the use of podcasts to bring you short, easy listening highlights from the latest release of the Australian Bureau of Statistic's AST publication. Read more... |