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Alex Sadleir 1 geo
Maxious 2
Alex Sadleir 3 R
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5 - tools.disclo.gs - how to use data
Maxious 6 - developer tools inc. linked data
Maxious 7 - gephi -> neo4j
Alex Sadleir 8 - neo4j lets you build on, do massive queries of who is friends with who
9 - don't use network viz if what you actually have is a tree/hierarchy with no interconnections http://www.randelshofer.ch/treeviz/ http://thejit.org/demos/ http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/treemap.html http://blog.pixelingene.com/2011/07/building-a-tree-diagram-in-d3-js/
Maxious 10 - http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/pack.html http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/tree.html
Alex Sadleir 11 - postgis/quantum gis
Maxious 12 - (google earth is alright but many limitations) NASA World Wind?
Maxious 13 - ABS statistical areas
Maxious 14 - base layers like agri, http://irs.gis-lab.info/ wms or http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms_openstreetmap_tms.xml
Maxious 15 - can do nearest/isin/union queries - personal geocoder
Maxious 16 - cloudmade geocoder, google maps my maps
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Maxious 18 - scraperwiki with new pytemplate libraries
Maxious 19 - makes an API for your data to get in sqlite/json/csv
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Alex Sadleir 21 - govhack library
Maxious 22 - https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs448b-12-fall/ data viz theory
Maxious 23 - http://drawingbynumbers.org/toolsandresources
Maxious 24 - http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=6465
25 - http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449339739/k_00000002.html list of d3 alternatives
maxious 26 - http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/10/01/understanding-postgres-performance/
Maxious 27 - https://github.com/clips/pattern for easy NLP/network analysis/data mining
Maxious 28 - https://github.com/theodi/open-data-tech-review/wiki othr cleanup/linked data toola
29 - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools catalog
Maxious 30 - manipulating data - grep/find replace/sed/regex
Alex Sadleir 31 - d3 tools and tutorial http://enjalot.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608440
Maxious 32 - Why d3 is the way it is and how to make charts http://bost.ocks.org/mike/chart/
33 - how to make an xkcd chart http://bl.ocks.org/3914862
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Maxious 35 - data viz
36 - http://k2company.com/blog/2012/09/06/toolbox-for-learning-machine-learning-and-data-science/
37 - http://williamparry.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/putting-data-into-google-fusion-tables.html google fusion tutorial
38 - andrewharvey4.wordpress.com postgis/asgs tutorial
39 - http://www.slideshare.net/maxdemarzi/etl-into-neo4j
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41 - http://www.twotorials.com/ for R
42 - http://www.r-bloggers.com/gradient-word-clouds/ http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/ http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/11/28/quick-shiny-demo-exploring-nhs-winter-sit-rep-data/ https://github.com/timelyportfolio/shiny-d3-plot https://github.com/trestletech/shiny-sandbox/tree/master/grn
43 - http://is-r.tumblr.com/post/38240018815/making-prettier-network-graphs-with-sna-and-igraph
Alex Sadleir 44 - http://www.r-bloggers.com/video-simpler-tricks-and-tools-help-debugging-git-latex-and-workflow-with-r-by-prof-rob-hyndman/
45 - http://yihui.name/knitr/ makes reports including google widgets/charts/maps via http://www.r-bloggers.com/googlevis-0-3-2-is-released-better-integration-with-knitr/
46 - http://chartsnthings.tumblr.com/post/36978271916/r-tutorial-simple-charts http://flowingdata.com/2012/12/17/getting-started-with-charts-in-r/
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48 - http://dydra.com/
49 - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools list
50 - http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ network graphs for excel
Alex Sadleir 51 - http://sunfoundation.tumblr.com/
Maxious 52 - analysing - linked data tools
Alex Sadleir 53 - http://govcampau.wikispaces.com/useful+tools
Maxious 54 - http://linkeddata.org/home
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Alex Sadleir 57 Welcome to the GovHack toolkit. This page provides all the information you need to prepare hackfest entries.
Maxious 58 These tools can be used to make entries like: mobile apps, web apps, data visualisations/infographics
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Alex Sadleir 61 # General Data Hacking and Programming References {#general-data-hacking-and-programming-references}
Alex Sadleir 62 ## The basics of being a data scientist
Maxious 63
maxious 64 * Have a hypothesis � even if you’re making a tool/api that helps people with their questions too, remember what the objective of that is.
Alex Sadleir 65 * Find the people and tools you need to prove/show/find. This rest of this page will help with the latter.
Maxious 66 * Analyse and present results � were they what you expected? Do they help explain to others what you have found out? Can present as a interactive data visualisation or a web/mobile application or just a infographic/motion graphics video that tells a story.
Alex Sadleir 67 Please note, there are a combination of Analysis and Visualisation tools in each of the major categories below.
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70 [![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_m6a65720f-300x199.gif "Data Journalism Diagram")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_m6a65720f.gif)</dt>
Maxious 71 Illustration from Data Journalism Handbook, CC BY-SA 3.0</dd>
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Maxious 74 The best high level reference is the �Understanding Data� and �Delivering Data� chapters of the Data Journalism Handbook which is available online for free at
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76 [datajournalismhandbook.org](http://datajournalismhandbook.org/)
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78 You can learn the technical skills from scratch in Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau or for more advanced
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Maxious 80 practical advice check out Data Analysis with Open Source Tools by Philipp K. Janert
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Maxious 82 For further reading in this space
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Alex Sadleir 84 [http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/27/data-and-visualization-blogs-worth-following/](http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/27/data-and-visualization-blogs-worth-following/)
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88 **Statistics**
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90 [http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/index.html](http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/index.html)
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92 **Programming**
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94 Programming is valuable skill for manipulating and displaying data.
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96 Basic tutorials for a variety of languages are available for free online or you can learn
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98 interactively with websites like [http://www.codecademy.com/](http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0\. for JavaScript or [http://www.learnpython.org/ ](http://www.learnpython.org/)or [http://tryruby.org](http://tryruby.org/)
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100 [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript) &#8211\. especially for web applications and visualisations, you&#8217;ll need a basic understanding of JS. Common libraries like prototype or jQuery can help
Alex Sadleir 101
Maxious 102 **Accessibility/User Experience**
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Alex Sadleir 104 WCAG guidelines not only make a web app accessible but make it a better experience for all users! Even if not making an app, good to consider these things to do and not do: [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/](http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/)
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106 ## Who can be a hack day participant
107 - roles; coder, designer UX/graphics
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109 ## Definitions
110 - definitions, open licence reuse permissive hacker hack data journalism data bis UCX etc.
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113 ## key datasets
114 - key datasets, directory.gov.au gazetter/AEC electorates/suburbs/postcodes/LGAs
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116 ## examples
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Maxious 118 ## The Open Budget
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Maxious 120 ## WeatherTree weather API
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Maxious 122 ## PlanningAlerts
Alex Sadleir 123
maxious 124 [![Planning Alerts Screenshot](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_2f0199ff1-300x221.png "Planning Alerts Screenshot")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_2f0199ff1.png)Description: Planning Alerts takes data from local government development applications and sends alerts to users based on what applications are lodged in their area.
Maxious 125
Alex Sadleir 126 Programming Language: Ruby
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128 Source Control: [Git](https://github.com/openaustralia/planningalerts-app)
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Alex Sadleir 130 Issue Tracking: [Atlassian JIRA](http://tickets.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/browse/PA/)
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132 ## LobbyLens
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134 [![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/129-Screenshot-LobbyClue_-_Chromium-300x180.png "LobbyLens screenshot")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/129-Screenshot-LobbyClue_-_Chromium.png)
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136 Description: Displays connections between government contracts, business details, politician responsibilities, lobbyists, clients of lobbyists, political donors and the location of these entities.
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138 Programing Language: PHP
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140 Source Control: SVN (Subversion)
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142 Issue Tracking: A whiteboard
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Maxious 144 ## Bus.lambdacomplex.org
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Alex Sadleir 146 [![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_3789acae-300x253.jpg "Bus.lambda screenshot")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_3789acae.jpg)
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