| Welcome to the GovHack toolkit. This page provides all the information you need to prepare hackfest entries. |
#GovHack Toolkit |
| These tools can be used to make entries like: mobile apps, web apps, data visualisations/infographics |
Welcome to the GovHack toolkit. This page provides all the information you need to prepare hackfest entries. |
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These tools can be used to make entries like: mobile apps, web apps, data visualisations/infographics. |
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This toolkit is open source, licenced cc-by and improvements are encouraged ... |
| - govhack toolkit!!!! |
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| - key datasets, directory.gov.au gazetter/AEC electorates/suburbs/postcodes/LGAs |
# How to register and submit your entry |
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## Registering your team |
| - definitions, open licence reuse permissive hacker hack data journalism data bis UCX etc. |
Coming Soon: how to use the website "Hacker Space" to register and find teams. |
| - what do govhack entries look like? |
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| - roles; coder, designer UX/graphics |
## Preparing your submission |
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You should record a 3 minute speech and mix images/text to accompany. |
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http://www.screenr.com/ and other screencasting tools allow you to demo apps. |
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To mix together clips, you can use youtube video editor http://www.youtube.com/editor or local software like http://www.videolan.org/vlmc/ or http://www.lwks.com/ |
| - http://converter.mygeodata.eu/vector kml exporter for shp |
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| - http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/ |
You also need to submit your "source material". For an application this may be source code, for another work it might be your notes or prototypes. |
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The key thing here is that your source material demonstrates to the judges that some of the end result was your own work and that it is possible for another person to replicate that work. |
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| - http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/10-R-packages-I-wish-I-knew-about-earlier.html |
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| - excel -> R/rattle/ deducer? http://www.r-bloggers.com/updates-to-the-deducer-family-of-packages/ |
# General References {#general-data-hacking-and-programming-references} |
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## Who can be a hack day participant |
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There are many roles you can play; coder, designer UX/graphics. |
| - tools.disclo.gs - how to use data |
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| - developer tools inc. linked data |
## The basics of being a data scientist |
| - gephi -> neo4j |
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| - neo4j lets you build on, do massive queries of who is friends with who |
* 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. |
| - 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/ |
* Find the people and tools you need to prove/show/find. This rest of this page will help with the latter. |
| - http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/pack.html http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/tree.html |
* Analyse and present results - were they what you expected? Do they help explain to others what you have found out? |
| - postgis/quantum gis |
Can present as a interactive data visualisation or a web/mobile application or just a infographic/motion graphics video that tells a story. |
| - (google earth is alright but many limitations) NASA World Wind? |
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| - ABS statistical areas |
[](img/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_m6a65720f.gif)</dt> |
| - http://irs.gis-lab.info/ wms or http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms_openstreetmap_tms.xml |
Illustration from Data Journalism Handbook, CC BY-SA 3.0</dd> |
| - can do nearest/isin/union queries - personal geocoder |
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| - cloudmade geocoder, google maps my maps |
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 |
| - base layers like agri or nearmap |
[datajournalismhandbook.org](http://datajournalismhandbook.org/) |
| - scraperwiki with new pytemplate libraries |
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| - makes an API for your data to get in sqlite/json/csv |
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 |
| - three.js with cables vis? Overviewer from AP? |
practical advice check out Data Analysis with Open Source Tools by Philipp K. Janert |
| - govhack library |
For further reading in this space |
| - http://hpneo.github.com/gmaps/examples.html |
[http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/27/data-and-visualization-blogs-worth-following/](http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/27/data-and-visualization-blogs-worth-following/) |
| - https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs448b-12-fall/ data viz theory |
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| - https://mixpanel.com/education/understanding-the-first-five-minutes |
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| - http://drawingbynumbers.org/toolsandresources |
**Statistics** |
| - http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=6465 |
[http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/index.html](http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/index.html) |
| - http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449339739/k_00000002.html list of d3 alternatives |
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| - http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/10/01/understanding-postgres-performance/ |
**Programming** |
| - https://github.com/clips/pattern for easy NLP/network analysis/data mining |
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| - https://github.com/theodi/open-data-tech-review/wiki othr cleanup/linked data toola |
Programming is valuable skill for manipulating and displaying data. |
| - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools catalog |
Basic tutorials for a variety of languages are available for free online or you can learn |
| - manipulating data - grep/find replace/sed/regex |
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| - d3 tools and tutorial http://enjalot.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608440 |
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/) |
| - Why d3 is the way it is and how to make charts http://bost.ocks.org/mike/chart/ |
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| - how to make an xkcd chart http://bl.ocks.org/3914862 |
[https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript) - especially for web applications and visualisations, you'll need a basic understanding of JS. Common libraries like prototype or jQuery can help |
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**Accessibility/User Experience** |
| - http://k2company.com/blog/2012/09/06/toolbox-for-learning-machine-learning-and-data-science/ |
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| - http://williamparry.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/putting-data-into-google-fusion-tables.html google fusion tutorial |
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/) |
| - andrewharvey4.wordpress.com postgis/asgs tutorial |
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| - http://www.slideshare.net/maxdemarzi/etl-into-neo4j |
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| - http://www.twotorials.com/ for R |
# Developer Tools For Your Computer {#developer-tools-for-your-computer} |
| - 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 |
No matter what kind of application you have for the data, there are many tools you can use to better collaborate and manage your project. |
| - http://is-r.tumblr.com/post/38240018815/making-prettier-network-graphs-with-sna-and-igraph |
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| - http://www.r-bloggers.com/video-simpler-tricks-and-tools-help-debugging-git-latex-and-workflow-with-r-by-prof-rob-hyndman/ |
### Source Control |
| - 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/ |
Git / Subversion |
| - 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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[](http://progit.org/book/) |
| - http://dydra.com/ |
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| - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools list |
[http://progit.org/book/](http://progit.org/book/) |
| - http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ network graphs for excel |
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| - http://sunfoundation.tumblr.com/ |
[http://svnbook.red-bean.com/](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/) |
| - analysing - linked data tools |
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| - http://govcampau.wikispaces.com/useful+tools |
[http://tortoisesvn.net/](http://tortoisesvn.net/) |
| - http://linkeddata.org/home |
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[http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/](http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/) |
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| # Hosted Developer Tools {#hosted-developer-tools} |
### Task Tracking - |
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Issue/task trackers allow you to outline the tasks required for your project and assign them to people to do. |
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[Trello](https://trello.com/) and [Workflowy](https://workflowy.com/) are free, lightweight project management tools suitable for a rapid project! |
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## Hosted Developer Tools {#hosted-developer-tools} |
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Can get many tools (source control, issue tracking) combined into one service cloud hosted so no setup required. |
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### Github |
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Git obviously but svn/hg interfaces are possible. Provide their own GUI for Windows/OSX or use the variety of Git capable tools |
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| ### Sourceforge |
### Sourceforge |
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| Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, CVS, issue tracker, wiki, release file downloads. Unlimited free use for open source projects. |
Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, CVS, issue tracker, wiki, release file downloads. Unlimited free use for open source projects. |
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| You can create your own Sourceforge project at [http://sourceforge.net/](http://sourceforge.net/) |
You can create your own Sourceforge project at [http://sourceforge.net/](http://sourceforge.net/) |
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| ### Google Code Project Hosting |
### Google Code Project Hosting |
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| Git, Mercurial, and Subversion code. Issue tracker, wiki, release file downloads. Unlimited free use for open source projects. |
Git, Mercurial, and Subversion code. Issue tracker, wiki, release file downloads. Unlimited free use for open source projects. |
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| You can host your Google Code project and get access to developer tools, APIs and documentation at [http://code.google.com/](http://code.google.com/) |
You can host your Google Code project and get access to developer tool |
