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Library Hack it s Time to Let the Data Loose Colleen Morgan | Digital visual Arts catalyst | the edge

Library Hack - It's Time to Let the Data Loose

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Edge Catalyst Colleen Morgan presents a whole host of fabulous data visualisations and mashups to get you excited and inspired for National Library Hack competition. Data visualisations are a way of making complex data sets meaningful. They can be beautiful, insightful, informative, entertaining, digital or physical and can reveal relationships you may never of thought of, like that most Facebook breakups happen just before the weekend! Colleen will also highlight the data sets that have been made available by the State Library of Queensland and we will all throw around some data visualisation ideas.Some resources to whet your data whistle: http://infosthetics.com/ and http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/Bio:Colleen Morgan is a Catalyst for the Digital Visual Arts at The Edge, Queensland's Digital Culture Centre. When she's not at The Edge tinkering with sewable electronics, Colleen is a a PhD candidate at Queensland University of Technology looking at the opportunities for using intelligent systems to improve teaching and learning. She also teaches Communication Design at QUT and is learning how to be a Jeweller.

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Library Hackit’s Time to Let the Data Loose

Colleen Morgan | Digital visual Arts catalyst | the edge

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What is Library Hack

• A mashup and application competition using data from Australian and New Zealand Libraries.

• State and National Competitions

• Great prizes up for grabs

• A chance to tell you own QLD story, reveal hidden connections and stories yet unthought of.

• An opportunity to experiment and have fun!

http://libraryhack.org/

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Comp Categories

Photo MashupCreate your own photo mashup using one of the released photo sets and any other freely available images that are rights-free.

PrizesOpen: $6000

Youth: ipad2

QLD: $2000

Library Staff: ipad2 (some terms and conditions)

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Photo Mashups

ABC Open Producers - Now and Then

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Photo Mashups

Warren Handley

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Photo Mashups

Warren Handley

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Comp Categories

Application/Data MashupCreate your own application or data mashup using one of the released data sets and any other freely available data sets.

PrizesOpen: $6000

Youth: ipad2

QLD: $2000

Library Staff: ipad2 (some terms and conditions)

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Comp Categories

Digital Media MashupCreate a short film, sound recording or soundscape [up to 90 seconds] using rights free digital content from the library datasets and any other rights-free content

PrizesOpen: $6000

Youth: ipad2

QLD: $2000

Library Staff: ipad2 (some terms and conditions)

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http://xkcd.com/657/large/

Visualising Narrative

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http://chrisharrison.net/projects/bibleviz/index.html

Visualising Narrative

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Visualising Poetry

Boris Muller - http://pingmag.jp/2007/03/23/infosthetics-form-follows-data/

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Visualising Words

Ebon Heath - http://www.psfk.com/2009/05/ebon-heaths-sculptures-create-beautiful-visual-noise.html

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcrowe/4002050596/sizes/l/

Visualising Travel

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http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/timelines/

Visualising Travel

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Hungry Beast - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcUuwdy7W7U

Visualising Politics

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http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/store/left-vs-right-world-edition/

Visualising Politics

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Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar http://www.wefeelfine.org/

Visualising Feelings

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Jonathan Harris - http://thewhalehunt.org/whalehunt.html

Visualising Events

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http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

Visualising Names

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Hans Rosling - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

Visualising World History

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http://www.gretchenetc.com/deargretchen.html

Visualising Archives

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http://www.gretchenetc.com/deargretchen.html

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http://www.gretchenetc.com/deargretchen.html

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http://www.gretchenetc.com/deargretchen.html

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http://www.gretchenetc.com/deargretchen.html

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http://www.gretchenetc.com/deargretchen.html

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http://www.gretchenetc.com/deargretchen.html

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http://exhibition.pictoplasma.com/portfolio/the-essence-of-rabbit

Visualising Collections

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Chris Jordan - Prison Uniforms- http://chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#prison-uniforms-set

Visualising Stats

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Kate Lyons

Student Examples

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SLQ Data Sources

• Picture Queensland

• Music Queensland

• Assisted Immigration Index 1848-1912

• British Convict Transportation Registers

• Digitised Maps

• Queensland Public Libraries - Locations

• Real Estate Maps

• http://data.gov.au/jurisdiction/queensland/

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Picture Queensland

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Music Queensland

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Assisted Immigration Index

1848 - 1912

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British Convict

Transportation Register"William Goss, one of 260 convicts transported on the Henry Porcher, 01 August 1836" "Convicted at Jamaica Court Martial for a term of life. "

"William Reeves, one of 304 convicts transported on the Sea Park, 30 December 1853" "Convicted at Berkshire. Abingdon Assizes for a term of 15 years. Ticket of Leave. "

"Thomas Haycock, one of 304 convicts transported on the Sea Park, 30 December 1853" "Convicted at Central Criminal Court for a term of 10 years. Ticket of Leave. "

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Real Estate Maps

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Tips and Tricks

Strike a Balance:• Visual Aesthetic

• Visualisation Techniques

• Knowledge

Identify interesting patterns and relationships in data

Choose you visualisation techniques

Sketch out ideas

Choose your colour scheme

Create visual clues to indicate subject matter

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Helpful tools

• Yahoo Pipes - www.pipes.yahoo.com

• Many Eyes - http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/

• After Effects

• Adobe Photoshop / GIMP

• Adobe Illustrator

• Flash

• Coloured Paper?

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Sites for inspiration• Information Aesthetics - www.infosthetics.com

• Information is Beautiful - www.informationisbeautiful.net

• Visual Complexity - www.visualcomplexity.com/vc

• Flowing Data - www.flowingdata.com

• Cool Infographics - www.coolinfographics.com

• David McCandless TED Talk - The Beauty of Data Visualisation - http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html

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Library Hack Events

April 20 Photo Mashup WorkshopLearn how to mash up old photos using Gimp (Linda Barron)

May 7 & 15 Hack in Motion WorkshopLearn how to animate old photos using aftereffects and photoshop

May 8 Hack to the FutureLearn how to turn old scores into MIDI files for remixing

May 14 Data MashupLearn how to use Yahoo Pipes and PHP to create your very own mashup

May 28Library Hack Lock In

Come along to make your own Library Hack entry. Learn special techniques from the experts. Mini comps on throughout the day.

Mount IsaThen and Now Digital Media Mashup

Match old and new photos, add vox-pop questions and turn it into a mini 90 sec documentary snap shot

More info at: www.edgeqld.org.au/category/libraryhack