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Team Name


Digital Poets


Team Members


Trish , Brett and 2 other members with unpublished profiles.

Project Description


Dissecting parliamentary speeches into poetry


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Speeches are published from the house are directed to from them sound bytes and keywords are taken to form poems. Images are selected from archive NZ to match the style of the poem.


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Team DataSets

Members of Parliament

Description of Use This is a source of politicians, this datasets led us to https://www.parliament.nz which contained speechers and the Hansard of debates in parliament.

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Digital New Zealand

Description of Use This site is used to not only find relevant or stimulating images but also links that go through to the news articles about about climate change put out but the government and others.

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The New Zealand Parliament website

Description of Use The speeches and questions you see live on Parliament TV are all available as video on demand on the www.youtube.com/user/inthehouseNZ

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Digital New Zealand

Description of Use This is a collection of images to go with the poems as well as another source of text for form poems based on news paper stories of the time.

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Beehive.govt.nz is the best place to find Government initiatives, policies and Ministerial information.

Description of Use Beehive.govt.nz is the place to find Government initiatives, policies and Ministerial information. Speeches are published here and from them sound bytes and keywords are taken to form poems.

Data Set

Challenge Entries

Most Artistic use of data (outside the box)

Most Artistic use of data (outside the box)

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Combating the Climate Emergency

Best hack to combat the climate emergency.

Go to Challenge | 6 teams have entered this challenge.