| 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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## Who can be a hack day participant |
| - tools.disclo.gs - how to use data |
There are many roles you can play as a hack day participant; coder, designer UX/graphics. |
| - developer tools inc. linked data |
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| - gephi -> neo4j |
## The basics of being a data scientist |
| - neo4j lets you build on, do massive queries of who is friends with who |
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| - 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/ |
* 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. |
| - http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/pack.html http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/tree.html |
* Find the people and tools you need to prove/show/find. This rest of this page will help with the latter. |
| - postgis/quantum gis |
* Analyse and present results - were they what you expected? Do they help explain to others what you have found out? |
| - (google earth is alright but many limitations) NASA World Wind? |
Can present as a interactive data visualisation or a web/mobile application or just a infographic/motion graphics video that tells a story. |
| - ABS statistical areas |
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| - http://irs.gis-lab.info/ wms or http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms_openstreetmap_tms.xml |
[](img/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_m6a65720f.gif)</dt> |
| - can do nearest/isin/union queries - personal geocoder |
Illustration from Data Journalism Handbook, CC BY-SA 3.0</dd> |
| - cloudmade geocoder, google maps my maps |
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| - base layers like agri or nearmap |
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 |
| - scraperwiki with new pytemplate libraries |
[datajournalismhandbook.org](http://datajournalismhandbook.org/) |
| - makes an API for your data to get in sqlite/json/csv |
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| - three.js with cables vis? Overviewer from AP? |
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 |
| - govhack library |
practical advice check out Data Analysis with Open Source Tools by Philipp K. Janert |
| - http://hpneo.github.com/gmaps/examples.html |
For further reading in this space |
| - https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs448b-12-fall/ data viz theory |
[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://mixpanel.com/education/understanding-the-first-five-minutes |
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| - http://drawingbynumbers.org/toolsandresources |
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| - http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=6465 |
**Statistics** |
| - 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/ |
A great guide to statistics is |
| - https://github.com/clips/pattern for easy NLP/network analysis/data mining |
[Think Stats](http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/index.html) |
| - https://github.com/theodi/open-data-tech-review/wiki othr cleanup/linked data toola |
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| - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools catalog |
**Programming** |
| - 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 |
Programming is valuable skill for manipulating and displaying data. |
| - Why d3 is the way it is and how to make charts http://bost.ocks.org/mike/chart/ |
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/) |
| - how to make an xkcd chart http://bl.ocks.org/3914862 |
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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) |
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| - http://k2company.com/blog/2012/09/06/toolbox-for-learning-machine-learning-and-data-science/ |
**Accessibility/User Experience** |
| - 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 |
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://www.slideshare.net/maxdemarzi/etl-into-neo4j |
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| - 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 |
# Developer Tools For Your Computer {#developer-tools-for-your-computer} |
| - http://is-r.tumblr.com/post/38240018815/making-prettier-network-graphs-with-sna-and-igraph |
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.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/ |
### Source Control |
| - http://chartsnthings.tumblr.com/post/36978271916/r-tutorial-simple-charts http://flowingdata.com/2012/12/17/getting-started-with-charts-in-r/ |
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! |
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| - http://dydra.com/ |
[](http://progit.org/book/) |
| - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools list |
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| - http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ network graphs for excel |
[http://progit.org/book/](http://progit.org/book/) |
| - http://sunfoundation.tumblr.com/ |
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| - analysing - linked data tools |
[http://svnbook.red-bean.com/](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/) |
| - http://govcampau.wikispaces.com/useful+tools |
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| - http://linkeddata.org/home |
[http://tortoisesvn.net/](http://tortoisesvn.net/) |
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[http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/](http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/) |
| # Hosted Developer Tools {#hosted-developer-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. |
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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. |
