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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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# How to register and submit your entry
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## registering your team
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TODO how to use website "Hacker Space" to register and find teams etc.
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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.
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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/
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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.
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# General References {#general-data-hacking-and-programming-references}
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## Who can be a hack day participant
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- roles; coder, designer UX/graphics
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## Definitions
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- definitions, open licence reuse permissive hacker hack data journalism data vis UX etc.
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## The basics of being a data scientist
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* 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.
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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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* Analyse and present results - were they what you expected? Do they help explain to others what you have found out?
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Can present as a interactive data visualisation or a web/mobile application or just a infographic/motion graphics video that tells a story.
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[![](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>
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Illustration from Data Journalism Handbook, CC BY-SA 3.0</dd>
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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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[datajournalismhandbook.org](http://datajournalismhandbook.org/)
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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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practical advice check out Data Analysis with Open Source Tools by Philipp K. Janert
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For further reading in this space
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[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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**Statistics**
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[http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/index.html](http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/html/index.html)
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**Programming**
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Programming is valuable skill for manipulating and displaying data.
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Basic tutorials for a variety of languages are available for free online or you can learn
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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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[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**
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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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## examples
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## The Open Budget
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## WeatherTree weather API
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## PlanningAlerts
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[![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.
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Programming Language: Ruby
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Source Control: [Git](https://github.com/openaustralia/planningalerts-app)
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Issue Tracking: [Atlassian JIRA](http://tickets.openaustraliafoundation.org.au/browse/PA/)
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## LobbyLens
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[![](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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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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Programing Language: PHP
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Source Control: SVN (Subversion)
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Issue Tracking: A whiteboard
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## bus.lambdacomplex.org
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[![](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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Description: Online Canberra Bus Timetables and Trip Planner.
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Programing Language: PHP/Ruby
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Source Control: Git
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Issue Tracking: Github
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## Developer Tools For Your Computer {#developer-tools-for-your-computer}
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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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- css framework like bootstrap or zurb foundation
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- css gauges http://www.larentis.eu/donuts/
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- bootstrap themes, web fonts, css sprites, icon fonts
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- http://designmodo.com/flat-free/ http://designmodo.github.com/Flat-UI/
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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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### Source Control
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Git / Subversion
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[![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-at-2012-04-29-172132-300x235.png "Git Screenshot")](http://progit.org/book/)
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[http://progit.org/book/](http://progit.org/book/)
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[http://svnbook.red-bean.com/](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/)
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[http://tortoisesvn.net/](http://tortoisesvn.net/)
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[http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/](http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/)
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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 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
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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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