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* '''Astronomy lit reviews'''. Create a place for astronomers to post their lit reviews. [Ruth]
 
* '''Astronomy lit reviews'''. Create a place for astronomers to post their lit reviews. [Ruth]
 
* ''' Gender of conference speakers/questions.''' Interesting study at AAS 223 of who asks questions after talks - [http://www.astrobetter.com/report-gender-in-aas-talks/ see here] - might be interesting to carry out at NAM2014 or set up for future NAM. [Jonathan and Karen]
 
* ''' Gender of conference speakers/questions.''' Interesting study at AAS 223 of who asks questions after talks - [http://www.astrobetter.com/report-gender-in-aas-talks/ see here] - might be interesting to carry out at NAM2014 or set up for future NAM. [Jonathan and Karen]
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* ''' Automated demographics of conference from participant list.''' Vaguely related to the above. Would be fascinating to be able to parse a list of conference attendees and use that to construct numbers, gender balance, academic age (years from 1st paper) via ADS, and maybe a metric of academic diversity (mean number of coauthors also present per attendee?). [Jonathan]
 
* '''Construct-o-Cosmos'''. Teach yourself a craft off YouTube, and contribute some Dark Matter to a galaxy cluster in formation. Prototypes made at UPortsmouth Art & Design will be provided! [Jane]
 
* '''Construct-o-Cosmos'''. Teach yourself a craft off YouTube, and contribute some Dark Matter to a galaxy cluster in formation. Prototypes made at UPortsmouth Art & Design will be provided! [Jane]
 
* '''Best Scale Model'''. A quick tool to let you find a common object to represent a given scale. [Jen - but Karen uploaded it]
 
* '''Best Scale Model'''. A quick tool to let you find a common object to represent a given scale. [Jen - but Karen uploaded it]
 
* '''Visualising Textual Data'''. HMNAO provide an online service named Websurf - [http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/psp/index_beta.html see here]. It provides rise/set times, azimuth and altitudes, Islamic Prayer Times, First Sighting of New Crescent Moon, Moon Phases, Equinoxes & Solstices and an Almanac giving solar, lunar and planetary data for a specific time and location. It has recently gone through a phase of redevelopment to make it more user friendly. One item that is still in development is the output and output formats. We have various output formats that we are looking into but what would be useful and possibly attract users from all backgrounds would be visualising some of the outputs. For example, ideas on how to visualise a years worth of sun rise/set and twilight times? [Paresh Prema, HM Nautical Almanac Office]
 
* '''Visualising Textual Data'''. HMNAO provide an online service named Websurf - [http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/psp/index_beta.html see here]. It provides rise/set times, azimuth and altitudes, Islamic Prayer Times, First Sighting of New Crescent Moon, Moon Phases, Equinoxes & Solstices and an Almanac giving solar, lunar and planetary data for a specific time and location. It has recently gone through a phase of redevelopment to make it more user friendly. One item that is still in development is the output and output formats. We have various output formats that we are looking into but what would be useful and possibly attract users from all backgrounds would be visualising some of the outputs. For example, ideas on how to visualise a years worth of sun rise/set and twilight times? [Paresh Prema, HM Nautical Almanac Office]
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== Interesting Data ==
 
== Interesting Data ==
  

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