back to article What's that? The Bureau of Stats has an API and nobody TOLD you?

Australia's national data-collector, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, has quietly published an API to its data sets. While it won't replace most peoples' preferred (or at least tolerated) means to get ABS data - the spreadsheets and CSVs the ABS provides for easy database ingestion - the API will allow others to embed ABS …

  1. John Smith 19 Gold badge
    Go

    Intriguing.

    I'm not sure what to make of this but I think someone will come up with something.

    Tracking the rate of National Broadband Network in real time perhaps?

  2. Martlark

    Try it out

    This weekends govHack in Australia will be a great try out for this outstanding innovation.

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