Hackpack: Data is Beautiful

Clemson ACM

Your mission should you choose to accept it is to make the best visualization of a data source that you can in the next 4 hours.

Submissions can be made to this github page via pull request.

Here are a few resources to get you started on developing.

A few starter ideas...##

• Heat map of class times/buildings
• Color Coded scatterplot of how hard a class/teacher is by how many students they have, and course level
• Map of the US with plot of best scores based on college score card
• Histogram of when you send emails
• And more...

Possible Data Sources

• data.gov a collection of publicly available datasets
• Google APIs Information from your Google Accounts
• Google Public Data Search engine for publicly available datasets
• Office of Instititutional Research Information about classes and professors at Clemson

•   [Reddit API][reddit] Reddit has an easy-to-use API by adding .json to the end of any page
  

• And more ...

Data Processing Libraries##

• d3.js Data Driven Documents in Javascript
• pandas a data processing library for python
• R programming language designed for statistical processing
• And more ...

Data Visualization Libraries##

• d3.js Data Driven Documents in Javascript
• Matplotlib Plotting and graphing in Python
• Processing software sketchbook
• R programming language designed for statistical processing
• And more ...