Upcoming Topics

Swinburne

Swinburne Hacker Within will explore the following tentative set of topics over the next few months. In addition to these, Lightning Talks are welcome at the end of every session, so feel free to bring some tidbit to share. Also, if you would like to suggest a to a topic and/or present a short talk or tutorial please send an email to the organiser.

Scheduled meetups

• August 26, 2015 Hacky Hour & e-Research Coffee (last before break)

Taking a break

While Swinburne takes a break from formal Hacky Hour and tutorials we recommend checking out the previous and upcoming tutorials and discussions from the other THW chapters: Berkeley, Illinois, and Wisconsin

Potential Topics

• Data and Databases 101 - SQL, MySQL, SQLite, NoSQL etc.
• Creating interactive figures from basic research plots
• Mozilla Study Groups
• Introduction to Julia Programming Language
• D3js Data-driven Documents: Javascript library - Website: D3js.org
• Building visually-rich interactive timelines with TimelineJS
• CartoDB Mapping for Researchers
• LeafletJS: open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps - Website: LeafletJS
• OdysseyJS: open-source tool that allows you to combine maps, narratives, and other multimedia into a beautiful story
• Coding for Citizen Science projects - Zooniverse etc.
• Tableau Public free tool for visualising data
• S2PLOT: advanced three-dimensional plotting library that can be used to embed interactive PDFs into papers
• OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine): great for cleaning up messy spreadsheet data
• SQLAlchemy the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
• @IsaKiko's lesson plans: for teaching the basics of HTML, CSS, SVG, JSON, and JS (primarily D3.js)
• Bibliometics? Hacking journal archives
• Random Hacks of Kindness" Website: rhokaustralia.org
• Object Oriented Programming
• Replicable scientific papers using docker
• Introduction to Authorea
• R
• Shiny: an R-language package that creates web applications to interact with analysis pipelines and visualizations.
• iPython and iPython Notebooks
• Astropy
• The Value of Code Testing
• Advanced Git
• What do you want to learn? What do you want to teach?
• Software Carpentry at Swinburne
• Matplot lib and Seaborn