Last Updated: 31-May-2022

An initiative of the Deakin University Industry Student Capstone (DISC) Program for the City of Melbourne.

Welcome to the Melbourne Open Data Playground GitHub community page.

Melbourne Open Data Playground (MOP) is a capstone project sponsored by Deakin University.

Since Covid there has been greater demand for data by the business community to support their decision making. This project is designed to align with and support two strategic imperitives from City of Melbourne Council being:

• The Economic Development Strategy to be a digitally-connected city, and
• The 2021-2025 Council Plan which outlines the specific objective of delivering programs that will build digital literacy skills and capabilities.

The City of Melbourne has been an Australian leader in Open Data since 2014.

Through research and local community engagement, the City of Melbourne has identified two key gaps in community knowledge of open data, these being:

• an understanding of how to access Open Data, and
• how to gain insights from the data in support of application development and finding solutions to city problems.

In this GitHub repository you can access a wide variety of example Jupyter notebooks that let you explore, visualise and analyse Open Data published by the City of Melbourne.

By publishing these notebooks, we aim to increase adoption and use of City of Melbourne Open Data to support the business, research and development community.

This repository contains :

• Example Jupyter Notebooks
• Open Data API (a command line python program for open data retrieval)

This repository was setup, and is managed, by the D2I Melbourne City Capstone Team at Deakin University.

This repository is designed to provide access to both:

• supplementary content for the Melbourne Open Data Playground web site, and
• a forum for community contribution to the use of City Of Melbourne Open Data.

Note: This team is active and monitoring this repository primarily during Deakin University's 2022 Trimesters

• Step 1: Setup a GitHub account and ensure you are familiar with how to use Git and GitHub
• Step 2: Star and watch this page for updates
• Step 3: Explore some of the many example Jupyter notebooks available in this Repository
• Step 4: Let us know about if you have ideas for new features or spotted defects we should correct
• Step 5: Create your own Use Case using City of Melbourne Open Data and our Jupyter Notebook template.