| 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 and data visualisations/infographics. |
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| - govhack toolkit!!!! |
The text of this toolkit is open for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution licence and improvements are encouraged via Git http://github.com/maxious/govhack-tools or via email patches to govhack@lambdacomplex.org |
| - key datasets, directory.gov.au gazetter/AEC electorates/suburbs/postcodes/LGAs |
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# How to register and submit your entry |
| - definitions, open licence reuse permissive hacker hack data journalism data bis UCX etc. |
## Registering your team |
| - what do govhack entries look like? |
Coming Soon: how to use the website "Hacker Space" to register and find teams. |
| - roles; coder, designer UX/graphics |
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## 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. |
| - http://converter.mygeodata.eu/vector kml exporter for shp |
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://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/ |
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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. |
| - 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/ |
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# General References {#general-data-hacking-and-programming-references} |
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## The basics of being a data scientist |
| - tools.disclo.gs - how to use data |
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| - developer tools inc. linked data |
* 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. |
| - gephi -> neo4j |
* Find the people and tools you need to prove/show/find. This rest of this page will help with the latter. |
| - neo4j lets you build on, do massive queries of who is friends with who |
* Analyse and present results - were they what you expected? Do they help explain to others what you have found out? |
| - 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/ |
Can present as a interactive data visualisation or a web/mobile application or just a infographic/motion graphics video that tells a story. |
| - http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/pack.html http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/tree.html |
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| - postgis/quantum gis |
[](img/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_m6a65720f.gif)</dt> |
| - (google earth is alright but many limitations) NASA World Wind? |
Illustration from Data Journalism Handbook, CC BY-SA 3.0</dd> |
| - ABS statistical areas |
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| - http://irs.gis-lab.info/ wms or http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms_openstreetmap_tms.xml |
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 |
| - can do nearest/isin/union queries - personal geocoder |
[datajournalismhandbook.org](http://datajournalismhandbook.org/) |
| - cloudmade geocoder, google maps my maps |
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| - base layers like agri or nearmap |
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 |
| - scraperwiki with new pytemplate libraries |
practical advice check out Data Analysis with Open Source Tools by Philipp K. Janert |
| - makes an API for your data to get in sqlite/json/csv |
For further reading in this space |
| - three.js with cables vis? Overviewer from AP? |
[http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/27/data-and-visualization-blogs-worth-following/](http://flowingdata.com/2012/04/27/data-and-visualization-blogs-worth-following/) |
| - govhack library |
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| - http://hpneo.github.com/gmaps/examples.html |
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| - https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs448b-12-fall/ data viz theory |
**Statistics** |
| - https://mixpanel.com/education/understanding-the-first-five-minutes |
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| - http://drawingbynumbers.org/toolsandresources |
A great guide to statistics is |
| - http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=6465 |
[Think Stats](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 interactively with websites like [Codecademy for JavaScript](http://www.codecademy.com/#!/exercises/0), [Learn Python](http://www.learnpython.org/) or [Try Ruby](http://tryruby.org/) |
| - 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 |
For web applications and visualisations, you'll need a basic understanding of JavaScript in order to configure pre made libraries like jQuery. A good source for Javascript information is the [Mozilla Development Network Javascript Page](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript) |
| - 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 |
**Accessibility/User Experience** |
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Following accessibility guidelines not only make a application 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 when designing for humans: [http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/](http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/) |
| - 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 |
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| - andrewharvey4.wordpress.com postgis/asgs tutorial |
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| - http://www.slideshare.net/maxdemarzi/etl-into-neo4j |
# Developer Tools For Your Computer {#developer-tools-for-your-computer} |
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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://www.twotorials.com/ for R |
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| - 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 |
### Source Control |
| - http://is-r.tumblr.com/post/38240018815/making-prettier-network-graphs-with-sna-and-igraph |
Using a version control system like Git or Subversion allows you to keep many different versions of what you have been working on so you can collaborate with others or simply back up your files so you don't lose them! |
| - http://www.r-bloggers.com/video-simpler-tricks-and-tools-help-debugging-git-latex-and-workflow-with-r-by-prof-rob-hyndman/ |
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| - 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/ |
[](http://progit.org/book/) |
| - 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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[tutorials on git](http://progit.org/book/) and |
| - http://dydra.com/ |
[GUIs to help you](http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/) |
| - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools list |
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| - http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ network graphs for excel |
[manual for Subversion](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/) |
| - http://sunfoundation.tumblr.com/ |
and a [similar GUI for Subversion](http://tortoisesvn.net/) |
| - analysing - linked data tools |
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| - http://govcampau.wikispaces.com/useful+tools |
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### 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. |
| # Hosted Developer Tools {#hosted-developer-tools} |
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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 there's no setup required. |
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### Github |
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Git obviously but svn/hg interfaces are also available. Provide their own GUI for Windows/OSX or use a variety of Git capable tools |
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### 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 Co |
