make.opendata.ch 2013: Finance
- Hackathon
More than 120 designers, programmers, journalists, experts and laypeople took part in the fourth national make.opendata.ch Hackdays in Bern and Sierre on the topic of finance, bringing more transparency, understanding and innovation to public and private revenue and spending.
On Friday and Saturday, 22 and 23 March 2013, insightful visualisations and innovative applications using financial data were created at the University of Bern and simultaneously at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Valais in Sierre.
Developing visualisations and applications further
A list of the financial data projects worked on in Bern and Sierre:
- Tax Freedom Day
- Qualified Money
- Open Aid
- Open Budget
- Financial equalisation in the Canton of Bern
- FTTH Business Model Navigator
- Cumulizer
- Mobile Deck Card Game with Financial Data
- Semantic Legal
- Calculating purchasing power based on salary and cost of living
- Partis budget
The demo versions, source code and documentation of all projects can be found in our make.opendata.ch wiki.
Possibilities and limits of visualised financial data
On the evening before, politicians and finance experts had critically discussed the topic “Possibilities and limits of visualised financial data” at the University of Bern. The video:
The next, 5th national make.opendata.ch Hackdays will take place in autumn – around the Open Knowledge Conference on 17 and 18 September in Geneva.