Hack Day Ideas
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* '''haikubot'''. Make a bot that tweets haikus found in arXiv papers posted that day. [Ruth] | * '''haikubot'''. Make a bot that tweets haikus found in arXiv papers posted that day. [Ruth] | ||
* '''Outreach Map'''. Create a map which indicates the nearest professional astronomy department for any place on the British Isles, count the number of people in each "catchment area", and compute the number of professional astronomers per citizen within it. [Geert] | * '''Outreach Map'''. Create a map which indicates the nearest professional astronomy department for any place on the British Isles, count the number of people in each "catchment area", and compute the number of professional astronomers per citizen within it. [Geert] | ||
+ | * '''Acknowledgement Parser'''. Parse the acknowledgements section of a large number of papers, identify the people and software that are most frequently mentioned, and give these credit on a web page. [Geert] | ||
== Interesting Data == | == Interesting Data == |