From: Maxious Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:29:45 +0000 Subject: edits X-Git-Url: https://maxious.lambdacomplex.org/git/?p=tools.git&a=commitdiff&h=a404c0d73e5279c60136ebcf4241fd1f3a775407 --- edits --- --- a/.gitmodules +++ b/.gitmodules @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@ [submodule "php-markdown"] path = php-markdown url = git://github.com/michelf/php-markdown.git +[submodule "js/toc"] + path = js/toc + url = https://github.com/jgallen23/toc --- a/css/main.css +++ b/css/main.css @@ -92,20 +92,77 @@ /* ========================================================================== Author's custom styles ========================================================================== */ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +/* stoc http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/css/jquery-plugin-smooth-scrolling/ */ +.items { + float: right; + width: 260px; + padding-bottom: 10px; + margin:0 0 10px 20px; + /* rgba with ie compatibility */ + background-color: transparent; + background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.4); + filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#20ffffff,endColorstr=#20ffffff); + -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#20ffffff,endColorstr=#20ffffff)"; +} +.items ul { + margin: 0 0 0 20px; + padding: 0 0 5px; + list-style-type: none; +} +.items ul ul { + font-size: 90%; +} +.items ul a { + font-family: "arial"; + text-decoration: none; + color: #c10000; +} +.items ul a:hover { color: #ff0000 } + /* toc https://github.com/jgallen23/toc */ +#wrapper { + margin: 0 20px 0 170px; +} + +#toc { + top: 0px; + left: 0px; + height: 100%; + position: fixed; + background: #333; + box-shadow: inset -5px 0 5px 0px #000; + width: 150px; + padding-top: 20px; + color: #fff; +} + +#toc ul { + margin: 0; + padding: 0; + list-style: none; +} + +#toc li { + padding: 5px 10px; +} + +#toc a { + color: #fff; + text-decoration: none; + display: block; +} + +#toc .toc-h2 { + padding-left: 10px; +} + +#toc .toc-h3 { + padding-left: 20px; +} + +#toc .toc-active { + background: #336699; + box-shadow: inset -5px 0px 10px -5px #000; +} --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -1,49 +1,79 @@ -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 - -govhack library - -- http://hpneo.github.com/gmaps/examples.html -- android datviz - - 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/ -- https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs448b-12-fall/ data viz theory -- https://mixpanel.com/education/understanding-the-first-five-minutes -- http://drawingbynumbers.org/toolsandresources -- http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=6465 -- http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449339739/k_00000002.html list of d3 alternatives -- http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/10/01/understanding-postgres-performance/ -- https://github.com/clips/pattern for easy NLP/network analysis/data mining -- https://github.com/theodi/open-data-tech-review/wiki othr cleanup/linked data toola -- http://www.opentripplanner.org/apidoc/rest.plan.html -- http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools catalog -- http://www.slideshare.net/OReillyStrata/visualizing-networks-beyond-the-hairball -- http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-554179-622011.html SNA tools catalog -- https://github.com/jacomyal/osdc2012-sigmajs-demo sigmajs filtering/searching -- manipulating data - grep/find replace/sed/regex -- d3 tools and tutorial http://enjalot.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608440 - - Why d3 is the way it is and how to make charts http://bost.ocks.org/mike/chart/ - - how to make an xkcd chart http://bl.ocks.org/3914862 -- http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/latent-semantic-analysis-in-ruby.html similar terms usually found together -- data viz -- http://k2company.com/blog/2012/09/06/toolbox-for-learning-machine-learning-and-data-science/ -- http://williamparry.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/putting-data-into-google-fusion-tables.html google fusion tutorial -- andrewharvey4.wordpress.com postgis/asgs tutorial -- http://www.slideshare.net/maxdemarzi/etl-into-neo4j -- http://www.twotorials.com/ for R - - 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 - - http://is-r.tumblr.com/post/38240018815/making-prettier-network-graphs-with-sna-and-igraph - - http://www.r-bloggers.com/video-simpler-tricks-and-tools-help-debugging-git-latex-and-workflow-with-r-by-prof-rob-hyndman/ - - 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://chartsnthings.tumblr.com/post/36978271916/r-tutorial-simple-charts http://flowingdata.com/2012/12/17/getting-started-with-charts-in-r/ -- http://dydra.com/ -- http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools list -- http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ network graphs for excel -- http://sunfoundation.tumblr.com/ -- css framework like bootstrap or zurb foundation -- analysing - linked data tools - - http://govcampau.wikispaces.com/useful+tools - - http://linkeddata.org/home -- analysing - unstructured/nlp incl overviewer, opennlp/nltk, lucene/solr - - http://www.r-bloggers.com/simple-text-mining-with-r/ +Welcome to the GovHack toolkit. This page provides all the information you need to prepare hackfest entries. +These tools can be used to make entries like: mobile apps, web apps, data visualisations/infographics + + +- govhack toolkit!!!! + - key datasets, directory.gov.au gazetter/AEC electorates/suburbs/postcodes/LGAs + + - definitions, open licence reuse permissive hacker hack data journalism data bis UCX etc. + - what do govhack entries look like? + - roles; coder, designer UX/graphics + + + +geo + - http://converter.mygeodata.eu/vector kml exporter for shp + - http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/ + +R + - http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/10-R-packages-I-wish-I-knew-about-earlier.html + - excel -> R/rattle/ deducer? http://www.r-bloggers.com/updates-to-the-deducer-family-of-packages/ + + + +- tools.disclo.gs - how to use data + - developer tools inc. linked data + - gephi -> neo4j + - neo4j lets you build on, do massive queries of who is friends with who + - 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/ + - http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/pack.html http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/tree.html + - postgis/quantum gis + - (google earth is alright but many limitations) NASA World Wind? + - ABS statistical areas + - http://irs.gis-lab.info/ wms or http://www.gdal.org/frmt_wms_openstreetmap_tms.xml + - can do nearest/isin/union queries - personal geocoder + - cloudmade geocoder, google maps my maps + - base layers like agri or nearmap + - scraperwiki with new pytemplate libraries + - makes an API for your data to get in sqlite/json/csv + - three.js with cables vis? Overviewer from AP? + - govhack library + - http://hpneo.github.com/gmaps/examples.html + - https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs448b-12-fall/ data viz theory + - https://mixpanel.com/education/understanding-the-first-five-minutes + - http://drawingbynumbers.org/toolsandresources + - http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=6465 + - http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449339739/k_00000002.html list of d3 alternatives + - http://craigkerstiens.com/2012/10/01/understanding-postgres-performance/ + - https://github.com/clips/pattern for easy NLP/network analysis/data mining + - https://github.com/theodi/open-data-tech-review/wiki othr cleanup/linked data toola + - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools catalog + - manipulating data - grep/find replace/sed/regex + - d3 tools and tutorial http://enjalot.com/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4608440 + - Why d3 is the way it is and how to make charts http://bost.ocks.org/mike/chart/ + - how to make an xkcd chart http://bl.ocks.org/3914862 + + - data viz + - http://k2company.com/blog/2012/09/06/toolbox-for-learning-machine-learning-and-data-science/ + - http://williamparry.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/putting-data-into-google-fusion-tables.html google fusion tutorial + - andrewharvey4.wordpress.com postgis/asgs tutorial + - http://www.slideshare.net/maxdemarzi/etl-into-neo4j + + - http://www.twotorials.com/ for R + - 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 + - http://is-r.tumblr.com/post/38240018815/making-prettier-network-graphs-with-sna-and-igraph + - http://www.r-bloggers.com/video-simpler-tricks-and-tools-help-debugging-git-latex-and-workflow-with-r-by-prof-rob-hyndman/ + - 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://chartsnthings.tumblr.com/post/36978271916/r-tutorial-simple-charts http://flowingdata.com/2012/12/17/getting-started-with-charts-in-r/ + + - http://dydra.com/ + - http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ data viz tools list + - http://nodexl.codeplex.com/ network graphs for excel + - http://sunfoundation.tumblr.com/ + - analysing - linked data tools + - http://govcampau.wikispaces.com/useful+tools + - http://linkeddata.org/home + # Hosted Developer Tools {#hosted-developer-tools} @@ -63,9 +93,9 @@ # The basics of being a data scientist -* 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. +* 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. * Find the people and tools you need to prove/show/find. This rest of this page will help with the latter. -* Analyse and present results – were they what you expected? Do they help explain to others what you have found out? Can present as a interactive data visualisation or a web/mobile application or just a infographic/motion graphics video that tells a story. +* Analyse and present results � were they what you expected? Do they help explain to others what you have found out? Can present as a interactive data visualisation or a web/mobile application or just a infographic/motion graphics video that tells a story. Please note, there are a combination of Analysis and Visualisation tools in each of the major categories below. # API Development {#api-development} @@ -87,11 +117,21 @@ 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.com](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)[+REST+API+Design+Guidelines+version+1](https://developer.atlassian.com/display/REST/Atlassian+REST+API+Design+Guidelines+version+1) - - - - -# Data Visualisation {#data-visualisation} +API + - howto.gov api tutorial + - http://shancarter.com/data_converter/ + - http://training.sunlightfoundation.com/module/data-visualizations-google-docs/ + - api documentation + - WSDL or http://swagger.wordnik.com/ or https://github.com/mashery/iodocs + - 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 + - https://github.com/elc/rapi_doc https://github.com/Pajk/apipie-rails + - + + + +# Infographics and Data Visualisation {#data-visualisation} + +Infographics try to contextualise charts and graphs to tell a story. Data vis builds on this to find new ways to design insight. Most of the categories to follow have visualisation tools specific to their purpose. @@ -101,57 +141,11 @@ Also check out [http://thejit.org](http://thejit.org/) & [http://www.senchalabs.org/philogl/](http://www.senchalabs.org/philogl/) (contributed by Matt Adcock) - - -# Augmented Reality Tools {#augmented-reality-tools} - -### buildAR - -buildAR was the world’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. - -[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’ll set you up for the free month fully activated account within a couple of days. - -### Other AR tools and references - -theAWEsomeWEB –\. Future of the Augmented Web [http://theAWEsomeWEB.com](http://theawesomeweb.com/) - -Layar –\. AR Browser - [http://layar.com](http://layar.com/) - -Junaio –\. AR Browser - [http://junaio.com](http://junaio.com/) - -Aurasma –\. AR Browser - [http://aurasma.com/](http://aurasma.com/) - -Vuforia –\. NFT based AR SDK - [http://qualcomm.com/solutions/augmented-reality](http://qualcomm.com/solutions/augmented-reality) - -String –\. Marker based AR SDK - [http://poweredbystring.com/](http://poweredbystring.com/) - -[pointcloud.io](http://pointcloud.io/) - SLAM based AR SDK - [http://pointcloud.io/](http://pointcloud.io/) - -ARToolkit –\. Marker based AR SDK - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARToolKit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARToolKit) - -FLARToolkit –\. Marker based AR SDK - [http://saqoo.sh/a/en/flartoolkit/start-up-guide](http://saqoo.sh/a/en/flartoolkit/start-up-guide) - -Kooaba –\. Visual search platform - [http://kooaba.com](http://kooaba.com/) - -Catchoom –\. Visual search platform - [http://catchoom.com/](http://catchoom.com/) - -Google Googles –\. Visual search app - [http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text](http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text) - -Vuzix 920AR –\. Wearable display - [http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/products_wrap920ar.html](http://www.vuzix.com/consumer/products_wrap920ar.html) - -Project Glass –\. Googles wearable display project - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4) - -Mixed Reality –\. Nokia’s vision for wearable displays [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwvZWyLiBU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwvZWyLiBU) - -City Lens –\. Nokia’s latest AR app - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lNPkl-EPE&feature=youtu.be](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lNPkl-EPE&feature=youtu.be) - -AR –\. Wikipedia page - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality) - -Steve Mann –\. Wearable Computing Pioneer - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann) - -Thad Starner –\. Wearable Computing Pioneer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Starner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Starner) - -Mark Weiser –\. Father of Pervasive Computing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weiser](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weiser) +# Mobile +html5 jquery mobile like directory.gov.au + - android datviz + - 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/ + # Geographical Data Tools {#geographical-data-tools} @@ -170,6 +164,8 @@ ## Visualisation +### Layar and other augmented reality tools + ### Google Fusion Tables/ChartsBin/[OpenHeatMap](http://www.openheatmap.com/) [![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/fusiontablesscreenshot-300x168.jpg "fusiontablesscreenshot")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/fusiontablesscreenshot.jpg)Input a numerical values and areas to a spreadsheet and maps are produced @@ -208,7 +204,7 @@ [Miso Dataset](http://misoproject.com/dataset/) -[![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_m53b7ee38-293x300.png "miso screenshot")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_m53b7ee38.png)Javascript data transformation library – especially good if you want to use the output for javascript interactive visualisations because the transformations can be done on-the-fly by users. +[![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_m53b7ee38-293x300.png "miso screenshot")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_m53b7ee38.png)Javascript data transformation library � especially good if you want to use the output for javascript interactive visualisations because the transformations can be done on-the-fly by users. ### R Statistical Language @@ -227,16 +223,35 @@ ### D3.js (Data-Driven Documents) [![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_m90d8020-300x277.jpg "d3 screenshot")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_m90d8020.jpg)Javascript visualisations that are more interactive or intricate than charts. Can be hard to learn but there are examples and easier to use premade visualisations such as [word clouds](http://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/), [realtime filtering of barcharts](http://square.github.com/crossfilter/), or [bubble trees for comparing amount sizes](https://github.com/okfn/bubbletree). +d3 + - http://datadrivenjournalism.net/resources/data_driven_documents_defined + - http://www.benmcmahen.com/blog/posts/50eb57d55a94d35262000001 d3 svg ### Processing.js +# Unstructured (text documents, webpages, metadata, tweets etc) Data Tools + +Scraperwiki +Overviewer/ Jigsaw +http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/jigsaw/ + - opennlp/nltk, lucene/solr + - http://www.r-bloggers.com/simple-text-mining-with-r/ + +R + - http://blog.josephwilk.net/ruby/latent-semantic-analysis-in-ruby.html similar terms usually found together + # Graph (relationships and networks) Data Tools {#graph-relationships-and-networks-data-tools} + - http://www.slideshare.net/OReillyStrata/visualizing-networks-beyond-the-hairball + - http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-554179-622011.html SNA tools catalog + - https://github.com/jacomyal/osdc2012-sigmajs-demo sigmajs filtering/searching + + ## Analysis ### Neo4j -[![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/webadmin-data-300x127.png "Neo4\. web admin screenshot")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/webadmin-data.png)Help understand relationships – how is X connected to Y and via what other entities they both are connected to. Imports and exports +[![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/webadmin-data-300x127.png "Neo4\. web admin screenshot")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/webadmin-data.png)Help understand relationships � how is X connected to Y and via what other entities they both are connected to. Imports and exports can be done using a preexisting tool like Gremlin or by writing a simple Java/Python/Ruby application. Queries can be tested in the built in data browser. @@ -256,7 +271,7 @@ ### [Graphviz](http://www.graphviz.org/) -[![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_7579906d-300x184.png "Graphviz Screenshot")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_7579906d.png)Classic directed graph visualisation tool, can even [generate images online without installing](http://ashitani.jp/gv/) or use in webpages with [javascript port of software](http://code.google.com/p/canviz/). File format [“dot” very easy to learn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_language) +[![](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_7579906d-300x184.png "Graphviz Screenshot")](http://www.govhack.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-participate-in-GovHack_html_7579906d.png)Classic directed graph visualisation tool, can even [generate images online without installing](http://ashitani.jp/gv/) or use in webpages with [javascript port of software](http://code.google.com/p/canviz/). File format [�dot� very easy to learn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_language) ### Gephi @@ -271,6 +286,10 @@ Below is some additional information including a few previous GovHack projects to get you thinking ![:)](http://www.govhack.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif) More examples are available at [http://mashupaustralia.org/](http://mashupaustralia.org/). # Previous Project Examples {#previous-project-examples} + +## The Open Budget + +## WeatherTree weather API ## PlanningAlerts @@ -313,7 +332,7 @@ Illustration from Data Journalism Handbook, CC BY-SA 3.0 -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 +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 [datajournalismhandbook.org](http://datajournalismhandbook.org/) @@ -345,7 +364,14 @@ -#[Developer Tools For Your Computer]{#developer-tools-for-your-computer} +# Developer Tools For Your Computer {#developer-tools-for-your-computer} + +server admin / technical tools +many projects will require some kind of internet presence, webpage etc. + - css framework like bootstrap or zurb foundation + video tools, youtube video editor/slideshow, FOSS video editing tools + - http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/11/relaying-postfix-smtp-via-smtpgmailcom/ + - amon ### Source Control –\. 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