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Alex Sadleir 1 Below is a whole bunch of information to help you prepare hackfest entries. These tools can be used to make entries like: mobile apps, web apps, data visualisations/inforgraphics
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Alex Sadleir 3 govhack library
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5 - http://hpneo.github.com/gmaps/examples.html
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Maxious 7 - 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/
Alex Sadleir 8 - https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs448b-12-fall/ data viz theory
9 - https://mixpanel.com/education/understanding-the-first-five-minutes
Maxious 10 - http://drawingbynumbers.org/toolsandresources
Alex Sadleir 11 - http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=6465
Maxious 12 - http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449339739/k_00000002.html list of d3 alternatives
Maxious 13 - http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/10/01/understanding-postgres-performance/
Maxious 14 - https://github.com/clips/pattern for easy NLP/network analysis/data mining
Maxious 15 - https://github.com/theodi/open-data-tech-review/wiki othr cleanup/linked data toola
Maxious 16 - http://www.opentripplanner.org/apidoc/rest.plan.html
Maxious 17 - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools catalog
Maxious 18 - http://www.slideshare.net/OReillyStrata/visualizing-networks-beyond-the-hairball
Maxious 19 - http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-554179-622011.html SNA tools catalog
20 - https://github.com/jacomyal/osdc2012-sigmajs-demo sigmajs filtering/searching
21 - manipulating data - grep/find replace/sed/regex
Maxious 22 - d3 tools and tutorial http://enjalot.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608440
Maxious 23 - Why d3 is the way it is and how to make charts http://bost.ocks.org/mike/chart/
24 - how to make an xkcd chart http://bl.ocks.org/3914862
maxious 25 - http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/latent-semantic-analysis-in-ruby.html similar terms usually found together
Maxious 26 - data viz
Maxious 27 - http://k2company.com/blog/2012/09/06/toolbox-for-learning-machine-learning-and-data-science/
28 - http://williamparry.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/putting-data-into-google-fusion-tables.html google fusion tutorial
Maxious 29 - andrewharvey4.wordpress.com postgis/asgs tutorial
Alex Sadleir 30 - http://www.slideshare.net/maxdemarzi/etl-into-neo4j
Maxious 31 - http://www.twotorials.com/ for R
32 - 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
maxious 33 - http://is-r.tumblr.com/post/38240018815/making-prettier-network-graphs-with-sna-and-igraph
Maxious 34 - http://www.r-bloggers.com/video-simpler-tricks-and-tools-help-debugging-git-latex-and-workflow-with-r-by-prof-rob-hyndman/
35 - 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/
36 - http://chartsnthings.tumblr.com/post/36978271916/r-tutorial-simple-charts http://flowingdata.com/2012/12/17/getting-started-with-charts-in-r/
37 - http://dydra.com/
38 - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools list
39 - http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ network graphs for excel
40 - http://sunfoundation.tumblr.com/
41 - css framework like bootstrap or zurb foundation
42 - analysing - linked data tools
Alex Sadleir 43 - http://govcampau.wikispaces.com/useful+tools
44 - http://linkeddata.org/home
45 - analysing - unstructured/nlp incl overviewer, opennlp/nltk, lucene/solr
Maxious 46 - http://www.r-bloggers.com/simple-text-mining-with-r/
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48 # Hosted Developer Tools {#hosted-developer-tools}
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Alex Sadleir 50 ### Sourceforge
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Alex Sadleir 52 Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, CVS, issue tracker, wiki, release file downloads. Unlimited free use for open source projects.
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54 You can create your own Sourceforge project at [http://sourceforge.net/](http://sourceforge.net/)
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Alex Sadleir 56 ### Google Code Project Hosting
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58 Git, Mercurial, and Subversion code. Issue tracker, wiki, release file downloads. Unlimited free use for open source projects.
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Alex Sadleir 60 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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Alex Sadleir 64 # The basics of being a data scientist
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Maxious 67 * 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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69 Please note, there are a combination of Analysis and Visualisation tools in each of the major categories below.
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Maxious 71 # API Development {#api-development}
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74 So an API isn’t just an XML file ![;)](http://www.govhack.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
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Maxious 76 A good web based data API:
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78 * Is logically organised
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80 * Can return results in different open formats (CSV/JSON etc.)
Maxious 81 * Is efficient and responsive by using caching and databases appropriately
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Maxious 84 * Provides appropriate documentation with examples
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Alex Sadleir 86 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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88 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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94 # Data Visualisation {#data-visualisation}
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96 Most of the categories to follow have visualisation tools specific to their purpose.
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98 You can find some data visualisation &#8220;essential&#8221\. tools below:
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100 [http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2011/07/part-6-the-essential-collection-of-visualisation-resources/](http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2011/07/part-6-the-essential-collection-of-visualisation-resources/)
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102 Also check out [http://thejit.org](http://thejit.org/) &amp; [http://www.senchalabs.org/<wbr>philogl/</wbr>](http://www.senchalabs.org/philogl/) (contributed by Matt Adcock)
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maxious 106 # Augmented Reality Tools {#augmented-reality-tools}
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108 ### buildAR
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110 buildAR was the world&#8217;s first AR Content Management System with the first early version launched back in 200\. as a bit of a test to see if people were interested in being able to create their own augmented experiences. MOB Labs officially launched the new improved buildAR at the Augmented Reality event in Silicon Valley in May 2011.
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112 [http://buildAR.com](http://buildar.com/) (normally a 1\. day free trial but GovHack attendees on the day will get a fully activated account for a month. If you are a GovHack attendee want full access now to play, just sign up for a trial and then forward your GovHack Eventbrite registration email to govhack [at] buildar.com and they&#8217;ll set you up for the free month fully activated account within a couple of days.
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114 ### Other AR tools and references
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116 theAWEsomeWEB &#8211\. Future of the Augmented Web [http://theAWEsomeWEB.com](http://theawesomeweb.com/)
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118 Layar &#8211\. AR Browser - [http://layar.com](http://layar.com/)
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Maxious 120 Junaio &#8211\. AR Browser - [http://junaio.com](http://junaio.com/)
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Maxious 122 Aurasma &#8211\. AR Browser - [http://aurasma.com/](http://aurasma.com/)
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Maxious 124 Vuforia &#8211\. NFT based AR SDK - [http://qualcomm.com/solutions/<wbr>augmented-reality</wbr>](http://qualcomm.com/solutions/augmented-reality)
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126 String &#8211\. Marker based AR SDK - [http://poweredbystring.com/](http://poweredbystring.com/)
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maxious 128 [pointcloud.io](http://pointcloud.io/) - SLAM based AR SDK - [http://pointcloud.io/](http://pointcloud.io/)
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Maxious 130 ARToolkit &#8211\. Marker based AR SDK - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>ARToolKit</wbr>](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARToolKit)
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Alex Sadleir 132 FLARToolkit &#8211\. Marker based AR SDK - [http://saqoo.sh/a/en/<wbr>flartoolkit/start-up-guide</wbr>](http://saqoo.sh/a/en/flartoolkit/start-up-guide)
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134 Kooaba &#8211\. Visual search platform - [http://kooaba.com](http://kooaba.com/)
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Alex Sadleir 136 Catchoom &#8211\. Visual search platform - [http://catchoom.com/](http://catchoom.com/)
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138 Google Googles &#8211\. Visual search app - [http://www.google.com/mobile/<wbr>goggles/#text</wbr>](http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text)
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140 Vuzix 920AR &#8211\. Wearable display - [http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/<wbr>products_wrap920ar.html</wbr>](http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/products_wrap920ar.html)
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142 Project Glass &#8211\. Googles wearable display project - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=9c6W4CCU9M4</wbr>](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4)
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144 Mixed Reality &#8211\. Nokia&#8217;s vision for wearable displays [http://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=CGwvZWyLiBU</wbr>](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwvZWyLiBU)
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146 City Lens &#8211\. Nokia&#8217;s latest AR app - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=63lNPkl-EPE&amp;feature=youtu.be</wbr>](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lNPkl-EPE&amp;feature=youtu.be)
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148 AR &#8211\. Wikipedia page - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Augmented_reality</wbr>](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality)