Ruth & Alastair (a wife & husband team), along with 138 other hackers, took part in the GovHack 2012 event held in Canberra & Sydney. The aim was to create the best mashup of open Government data sets. Our team, Cranky Bot, worked on a physical visualisation project called "Climate Vis Jewellery". We got an honourable mention for "Best use of Bureau of Meteorology data sets (temperature and rainfall)" and won the "Best Data Visualisation" for Canberra. Thanks to all the Government agencies for opening up their data, the sponsors and for the GovHack organisers.

1. With deadly
lasers!
Climate vis
jewellery
GOVHACK
3 JUNE 2012
@RuthEllison & @evildeece
From team @cranky_bot

2. Who are we?
Husband and wife
team
We love making &
hacking things
@RuthEllison & @evildeece from team @cranky_bot

3. The problem...
How do we get people interested in
science, particularly in the global
context of climate change?
@RuthEllison & @evildeece from team @cranky_bot

4. The solution?
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5. We performed an
experiment to see
how...
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6. ...BOM datasets react...
Bureau of Meteorology - Temperature
data
@RuthEllison & @evildeece from team @cranky_bot

7. When locked in a
room with...
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8. Deadly Lasers
This Portal 2 screenshot is a copyrighted video game graphic. This screen shot is used under the fair use provision of United States copyright law.

9. What do you get?
@RuthEllison & @evildeece from team @cranky_bot

10. Climate
vis
jewellery!
an intersection between art
and science
(Inspired by Mitchell Whitelaw)
@RuthEllison & @evildeece from team @cranky_bot

11. The data vis...
Data sampled every 6 months with a
6 month rolling average
Outer ring = maximum temperature
Inner ring = minimum temperature
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12. Perl
BOM
dataset
SVG
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13. @RuthEllison from @cranky_bot

14. Next steps...
Refine, refine, refine....
Find longer term datasets to show
climate change trends
Find this on ThingiVerse
http://www.thingiverse.com/
Upload your own datasets & create
your own personalised jewellery!
@RuthEllison & @evildeece from team @cranky_bot

15. THANK YOU
:)
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