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Creators: Me
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APIs, data and tools used: API
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Source code and links: Code
Hack URL: URL
Openpost
Creators: Eden Sherry
You subscribe arbitrary @openpost.com email addresses to multiple science mailing lists of your choice. Openpost extracts event listings posted to those lists, and aggregates them in a calendar view.
APIs, data and tools used: Amazon Web Services, Python
Screenshots, photos and videos:
Source code and links:
Hack URL: http://openpost.com
Truthiness
Creators: Koyel X. Bhattacharyya (@swingsidesmile) Ben Juang (@ibneko) Sharon Wong(@sharonw)
Truthiness is a popular science website aimed at distinguishing myth from fact, with articles, quizzes, fora, links, etc.! Our mission is to make science issues that are relevant to us in everyday life more understandable. We believe that laying out the facts for important issues like climate change or the consumption of genetically modified organisms will help people make good, informed decisions, instead of basing their decisions on rumors perpetuated by those who don't have a good understanding of the underlying scientific principles. We hope to spread the word about the website by making it social using Facebook Connect, which will let people see which articles you've read, which quizzes you took and how you did, and which fora you've contributed to.
APIs, data and tools used: Ruby on Rails
Facebook API
Data as referenced in body of website
Screenshots, photos and videos: Please see the website and click through it! truthiness.herokuapp.com
Source code and links: https://github.com/benjuang/truthiness
Hack URL: truthiness.herokuapp.com
TwitterDots
Creators: Rio Akasaka @rioakasaka
TwitterDots aggregates tweets for particular keywords and runs geolocation on user profiles in order to put the data in real-time on a map. It uses the Streaming API, searching for "I voted for Obama" and "I voted for Romney" and color coding the responses based on rudimentary language processing.
APIs, data and tools used: I used the Twitter API and Phirehose.
Screenshots, photos and videos: http://i.imgur.com/0La8b.png
Source code and links: https://github.com/fennb/phirehose
http://140dev.com/free-twitter-api-source-code-library/
Hack URL: http://twitterdots.net/
GeoMappit
Creators: Jen Blank Alaric Moore Nic Weidinger Lisa Ballard Lourdes Juarez Hari Kunamneni Tianfang Gui Rachel Dearborn Amit Rao Owen Pietrokowsky Steffen Frost
We are all about hacking messy government data into interactive maps and using this to encourage future citizen scientists. Our goal is to develop a useable phone app that is powerful, yet simple for the layman and the professional alike. We take government date (i.e., geological, water quality, springs, soil, VOLCANOES!) and parse it into human readable charts, maps, and tables.
APIs, data and tools used: ogr2ogr - open source tool converts shape files to KML
Google Fusion Tables
Data sources:
http://mrdata.usgs.gov/
California Geology
http://beforeamillionuniverses.com/hotgeo/cageol.kml
in a fusion table:
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1vgYq0-ySwDLUd0DBp1WTf_9Trzt9Tzz1GVOWJgs
CA faults:
in a google map:
http://www.quake.ca.gov/gmaps/FAM/faultactivitymap.html
all fault lines in a kml (need to limit to CA)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/qfaults/google.php
Hydrothermal Vents!!!
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1QPnXzSQKCebS8v5QRk-MKX5prs-yRPnehsNXofg
Snow Pack
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1c6UwrflOqSwFvbAzfuWCR59U2jZoxwKu_yp_ebE
Ship Wrecks!?
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=184LPwKi0lHsQSJfTlxzDuG1TvzrvMuaoxkN0L2Q
Hot Springs
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=18Oatg7oZg-uThL9chwkHUGH4fMS9uXIHOAPYPy8
Hot Springs by Temperature
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1GvFilp3EFXg4JW-yA9adPA9jWSfif0G5--snEYI
Water Quality
http://www.water.ca.gov/waterdatalibrary/waterquality/station_county/gst_report.cfm
Volcanos!
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=10KmXRt8hAJHV8YGI2g0afmcAdsviq4n0iMDk8U0
we didn't use this but it's cool http://opendatakit.org/
Screenshots, photos and videos: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcz934BHYa1rkvo4wo1_r1_500.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4wb8o75v0dp5n4c/gm-logo.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tg41ooqu1fafrqo/hgbrand-loadingpage.png
more at
http://geomappit.net/
Source code and links: https://github.com/basilleaf/geomappit
Hack URL: http://geomappit.net/
CoGeNT Symphony and the Sounds of Dark Matter...maybe!
Creators: Matt Bellis, @matt_bellis, (Siena College) Yevgeny Binder
The CoGeNT experiment is designed to detect dark matter particles as they knock into their detector. This detector sits in in the bottom of a mine and is shielded from cosmic rays, but is still affected by natural background sources. Most models of dark matter suggest that the rate of interactions should increase and decrease over the course of a year.
The CoGeNT experiment and one of the PIs at University of Chicago, Juan Collar, made public 14 months of data. We have used different sonic mappings of the data to try to ``hear" dark matter and the radioactive decays.
APIs, data and tools used: csound, python, Linux, CoGeNT dataset.
Screenshots, photos and videos: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~bellis/cogent_sonification/
Source code and links:
Hack URL: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~bellis/cogent_sonification/
Jamion
Creators: Felipe Jornada, Timur Bazhirov
We study the traffic flow of San Francisco muni using a quasiparticle approximation from condensed matter physics. We think of the collections of munis in one place of the map as the physical particles - "Jamions". We then analyze how these particles interact with each other based on the data from the past and make a prediction about the future.
APIs, data and tools used: SFMTA realtime muni locations on velocities API
GoogleMaps
Python
Screenshots, photos and videos: http://imgur.com/iWECm
Source code and links: In a private repo :)
Hack URL: soon to come
Evan XD
Creators: Evan Xd
About color blindness
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Wrist-Based Input
Creators: Rio Akasaka @rioakasaka
This hack uses a series of highly sensitive flex (bend) sensors around the wrist that measure any changes in movement. By training the system with a series of trials for the desired input, the system can learn to recognize future inputs based on that same action. While this implementation is still rough and in need of improvement, this prototype hopefully opens the door for new modes of interaction.
APIs, data and tools used: I used Processing and Arduino software, and a Arduino Pro Mini and a Bluetooth Shield (which is not shown in the implementation).
Screenshots, photos and videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shaIm-G0E1Y
Source code and links: https://gist.github.com/4013771
Hack URL:
Quantum mixology
Creators: David Harris Julyanne Liang Matt Bellis Moon Limb Morris Mwanga Oksana Timonin Yevgeny Binder
The fundamental laws of the universe create recipes for how particles combine to create other particles. Why not make these recipes a step more literal and make cocktails based on the laws of physics?
Each fundamental particle is mapped onto a cocktail ingredient, whether a liquor, a mixer, or a garnish. Then compound particles, which consist of combinations of fundamental particles, have a recipe for a cocktail built in.
We have matched cocktail ingredients to fundamental particles in a way that the properties of the particles match the properties of the ingredients as much as possible. For example, the electron and the electron neutrino are often found together in particle decays so those two particles map on to gin and tonic respectively. In addition the neutrinos are much lighter particles so they correspond to the mixers rather than the alcohols. A wealth of choices like that underlie the mapping from fundamental particles to cocktail ingredients.
The cocktails are presented as a set of recipes, defined by compound particles, but we have also done a back translation and adapted classic cocktails to a quantum theme, identifying these new recipes by their particle ingredients.
The translation from particles to ingredients is presented in a poster showing "The Standard Model of Cocktail Physics". The recipes are also available through a website that does the translations of particles into ingredients for you.
APIs, data and tools used: Brainz, taste buds, livers, photoshop, python, MySQL
Screenshots, photos and videos: http://www.bloodyepic.com/cocktailphysics.png
http://www.slideshare.net/physicsdavid/quantum-mixology
Source code and links:
Hack URL:
Zendo
Creators: Rachel Dearborn, Lourdes Juarez, Alex Kawas, Andrea Kuszewski, Karen Nguyen, Jessica Polka, Jehan Trembeck
Zendosaur is a browser game that teaches kids to think like scientists. Players must learn to feed a picky dinosaur, distinguishing between hypotheses about his tastes by experimenting with offering different foods.
APIs, data and tools used: API
Screenshots, photos and videos: Screenshot
Source code and links: Code
Hack URL:http://muga2.com/zendosaur/
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