Presentation of my Culture Hack Day 2011 hack using data from the UK Crafts Council.

1. Craft Matters?
Craft Matters
exploring the Craft Matters responses
Becky Stewart
Queen Mary, University of London
rebecca.stewart@eecs.qmul.ac.uk

2. what I did

3. craftmatters.org.uk

4. craftmatters.org.uk

7. how I did it

8. 1. Parse excel file and process the data
Python xlrd and nltk

9. 1. Parse excel file and process the data
Python xlrd and nltk
2. Create a webpage with a randomly selected quote
CherryPy serves automatically
generated HTML

10. 1. Parse excel file and process the data
Python xlrd and nltk
2. Create a webpage with a randomly selected quote
CherryPy serves automatically
generated HTML
3. User clicks on a word
4. Find and display another quote with that same word
(if one exists)

11. how can data providers help
developers make better projects?

12. Tim Berners-Lee 5 Stars
make your stuff available on the web (whatever format)
make it available as structured data (e.g. excel instead
of scan of table)
non-proprietary format (e.g. csv instead of excel)
use URLs to identify things, so that people can point at
your stuff
link your data to other people’s data so you can provide
context

14. make an API

15. make an API
developers don’t need to download a bunch of
data - developers can access it when they need
it

16. make an API
developers don’t need to download a bunch of
data - developers can access it when they need
it
you have better control over what happens with
your data, it stays on your server and not
floating around as a zip file

17. Thank you
rebecca.stewart@eecs.qmul.ac.uk
http://blog.theleadingzero.com