Well, it's been quite a while that I've not written some stuff or shared something. Recently, I went to "Open Nepal Hackathon 2013" where developers and designers sit for some hours to create a useful product at the end of the day. The basic idea of the program was to use open-data to build something useful.
Open-data is the data that is free(open) to everyone so that they can use it, know about it and let others know about it. It is kind of a open-source concept. Open-data is available in open formats such as CSV, JSON or XML. If the required data is available through a website or a PDF or a DOC then it can be scraped to make it open format so that anyone can use it. Open-data is basically required by data journalists, developers to manipulate and make use of it to make different visualizations, services or even applications. Example of some open data could be census, GDP, etc.
So, talking about the hackathon me and my group went and gathered some data from the internet about the status of internet, mobile phones in South Asia and Nepal. As it was our first hackathon experience we didn't want to make things hard for us. So, we kept it simple. We were looking to make visualizations of the data we collected which would help us know the position(status) of country in South Asia. For data visualization we used a JavaScript library Highcharts. With a database and some simple php scripts up and running we finished our work in the available time.
The source code and required data-sets of our project can be found at:
https://github.com/crazyNeo/CommunicationSouthAsia.git
https://github.com/crazyNeo/CommunicationSouthAsia.git
Do read the 'How To' section to know how to run the project.
Some the screenshots from our project:
Peace, Cheers !
