Hack Day projects
Markov Papers
This hack generates paper titles/abstracts with a Markov chain trained on real papers returned by any ADS search keywords.
Creators
- Benjamin Pope
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Project Apollo Stories
A Zooniverse Project: Help astronomers to re-create the incredible stories from the Apollo missions. Takes user selected images from the Apollo Project Flickr image gallery and creates beautiful Timeline JS interactive stories
Creators
- Arna Karick
- Sam Vaughan
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Spacebar
Can you write the fastest paper? Keep rain out of the dome while observing? Find the galaxies? Show off your skills with these astronomy themed mini-games. As we're all busy people, you only need to master one button to do so... the spacebar. Disclaimer - work-in-progress; no actual win condition; games not guaranteed to be fun.
Creators
- Scott Thomas
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Meta^4hack
Metadata on a hack about metadata on hacks. I.e., the submission form for this hack list.
Creators
- Erik Tollerud
- Daina Bouquin
- Tom Robitaille
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bvi-sonification
Users a Leap Motion device to alow a user to listen to a galaxy's spectra based on hand position.
Creators
- Coleman Krawczyk
- Jamie Ferguson
- Andy Newsam
- Adam Avison
- Philipp Plewa
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Hacks Collector
A way to archive all hacks made at .Astronomy conferences. Each hack has a separate YML file containing all meta data. The YAML files are validated and we then auto-build a new version of the website with the new hack listed.
Creators
- Erik Tollerud
- Daina Bouquin
- Tom Robitaille
- Edward Gomez
- Becky Smethurst
- Arna Karick
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Are you still talking?
Use a blink(1) light to control your speakers when you are chairing a session. This is a python package which installs a command line talk timer. By entering a total talk time and warning period, you will start the blink(1) light glowing green while they talking. It changes to orange when they are in the warning period, then red when their time is up. If they continue talking the light flashes a headache inducing light show until you control-C.
Creators
- Edward Gomez
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AstroBadger
Getting you in the habit of writing 200 academic words per day, every day. Inspired by 750words.com. Gamified writing! Chrome plugin + Flask app.
Creators
- Matthew Kenworthy
- Lisa Ballard
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GitNL
Run Git commands using normal English sentences parsed with Google's natural language processor.
Creators
- Brett Andrews
- Brian Cherinka
- Erik Tollerud
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AstroGoldStars
Give a Gold Star to a fellow scientist by tweeting @username++ at @AstroGoldStars on Twitter. Solves credit sharing in science.
Creators
- Geert Barentsen
- Kelle Cruz
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arxiv59
Twitter bot that posts papers which missed the top-of-the-arXiv deadline by about a ~second
Creators
- Andy Casey
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SIMBAD the Bot
Twitter bot which tweets a multi-wavelength animated GIF of a random SIMBAD object a few times a day. Serendipitously explore the sky!
Creators
- Simon Murphy (@AstroSmurph)
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The ArXiv Mailer
An app to modernize the formatting of the daily arXiv email.
Creators
- Dan Foreman-Mackey
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StingRA - Simbad Quick-Look Chrome Extension
This is a chrome extension that enables astronomers to highlight an astronomical object and, by clicking on the stingray, open a quick-look pop-up of magnitudes, images, sky position and links to simbad and WWT.
Creators
- Hugh Osborn
- Jonathan Fay
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Stellar Autopsies Zooniverse
A Zooniverse Project: Stellar Autopsies to classify the light curves of dying stars.
Creators
- Adam A. Miller
- Brigitta Sipocz
- Ashley Villar
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.draft
automagically highlight LaTeX differences between GitHub drafts
Creators
- Andy Casey
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Galaxy Zoo Maze
Creates a responsive view of a Zooniverse subject and a QR code, then supports scanning and reacting to result compared to local data file.
Creators
- James Gilbert
- Ricarda Beckman
- Ellen Schallig
- James Gilbert
- Becky Smethurst
- Marten Veldthuis
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Fakespeare
A LSTM neural network trained on the corpus of all Shakespeare plays that can generate hilarious and nonsensical plays
Creators
- Ruth Angus
- Dan Foreman-Mackey