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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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- govhack toolkit!!!!
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- key datasets, directory.gov.au gazetter/AEC electorates/suburbs/postcodes/LGAs
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- definitions, open licence reuse permissive hacker hack data journalism data bis UCX etc.
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- what do govhack entries look like?
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- roles; coder, designer UX/graphics
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server admin / technical tools
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many projects will require some kind of internet presence, webpage etc.
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video tools, youtube slideshow, FOSS video editing tools
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- http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/11/relaying-postfix-smtp-via-smtpgmailcom/
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- amon
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geo
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- http://converter.mygeodata.eu/vector kml exporter for shp
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- http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/
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R
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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/
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d3
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- http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/data_driven_documents_defined
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- http://www.benmcmahen.com/blog/posts/50eb57d55a94d35262000001 d3 svg
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API
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- howto.gov api tutorial
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- http://shancarter.com/data_converter/
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- http://training.sunlightfoundation.com/module/data-visualizations-google-docs/
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- api documentation
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- WSDL or http://swagger.wordnik.com/ or https://github.com/mashery/iodocs
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- http://symfony.com/ https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSRestBundle http://williamdurand.fr/2012/08/02/rest-apis-with-symfony2-the-right-way/ https://github.com/nelmio/NelmioApiDocBundle better apis https://github.com/liip/LiipHelloBundle
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- https://github.com/elc/rapi_doc https://github.com/Pajk/apipie-rails
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- tools.disclo.gs - how to use data
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- https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet#wiki-images reference style images?
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- developer tools inc. linked data
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- gephi -> neo4j
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- 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/
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- http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/pack.html http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/tree.html
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- postgis/quantum gis
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- (google earth is alright but many limitations) NASA World Wind?
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- ABS statistical areas
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- http://irs.gis-lab.info/ wms or http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms_openstreetmap_tms.xml
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- can do nearest/isin/union queries - personal geocoder
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- cloudmade geocoder, google maps my maps
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- base layers like agri or nearmap
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- scraperwiki with new pytemplate libraries
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- makes an API for your data to get in sqlite/json/csv
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- three.js with cables vis? Overviewer from AP?
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- govhack library
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- http://hpneo.github.com/gmaps/examples.html
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- android datviz
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- http://code.google.com/p/afreechart/ http://code.google.com/p/snowdon/ http://code.google.com/p/chartdroid/ http://androidplot.com/ http://code.google.com/p/achartengine/
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- 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
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- http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=6465
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- 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/
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- 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
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- http://www.opentripplanner.org/apidoc/rest.plan.html
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- http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools catalog
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- http://www.slideshare.net/OReillyStrata/visualizing-networks-beyond-the-hairball
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- http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-554179-622011.html SNA tools catalog
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- https://github.com/jacomyal/osdc2012-sigmajs-demo sigmajs filtering/searching
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- 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
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- 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
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- http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/latent-semantic-analysis-in-ruby.html similar terms usually found together
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- data viz
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- 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
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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
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- 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/
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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/
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- 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://dydra.com/
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- http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools list
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- http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ network graphs for excel
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- http://sunfoundation.tumblr.com/
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- css framework like bootstrap or zurb foundation
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- analysing - linked data tools
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- http://govcampau.wikispaces.com/useful+tools
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- http://linkeddata.org/home
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- analysing - unstructured/nlp incl overviewer, opennlp/nltk, lucene/solr
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- http://www.r-bloggers.com/simple-text-mining-with-r/
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# Hosted Developer Tools {#hosted-developer-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.
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You can create your own Sourceforge project at [http://sourceforge.net/](http://sourceforge.net/)
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### 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.
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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/)
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# The basics of being a data scientist
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* Find the people and tools you need to prove/show/find. This rest of this page will help with the latter.
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Please note, there are a combination of Analysis and Visualisation tools in each of the major categories below.
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# API Development {#api-development}
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So an API isn’t just an XML file ![;)](http://www.govhack.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
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A good web based data API:
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* Is logically organised
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* Can filter returned data
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* Can return results in different open formats (CSV/JSON etc.)
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* Is efficient and responsive by using caching and databases appropriately
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* Handles errors gracefully
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* Monitors and controls access (to show benefit realised of API and prevent abuse)
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* Provides appropriate documentation with examples
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Some people like sensis [http://](http://developers.sensis.com.au/)[developers.sensis.com.<wbr>au</wbr>](http://developers.sensis.com.au/)[/](http://developers.sensis.com.au/) use a provider like[http://](http://mashery.com/)[mashery.com](http://mashery.com/)[/](http://mashery.com/) or [https](https://apigee.com/)[://](https://apigee.com/)[apigee.com](https://apigee.com/) or [http://](http://apiaxle.com/)[apiaxle.com](http://apiaxle.com/)[/](http://apiaxle.com/) or [http://www.3scale.net/](http://www.3scale.net/) which handles making a good API for them.
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Atlassian have a great page on what makes a good API [https](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/REST/Atlassian+REST+API+Design+Guidelines+version+1)[://](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/REST/Atlassian+REST+API+Design+Guidelines+version+1)[developer.atlassian.<wbr>com</wbr>](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/REST/Atlassian+REST+API+Design+Guidelines+version+1)[/display/REST/](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/REST/Atlassian+REST+API+Design+Guidelines+version+1)[Atlassian](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/REST/Atlassian+REST+API+Design+Guidelines+version+1)[+<wbr>REST+API+Design+Guidelines+<wbr>version+1</wbr></wbr>](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/REST/Atlassian+REST+API+Design+Guidelines+version+1)
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# Data Visualisation {#data-visualisation}
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Most of the categories to follow have visualisation tools specific to their purpose.
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You can find some data visualisation “essential”\. tools below: