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Hack ideas
These were a few ideas suggested before the hack day. What we actually did is described here.
Proposed by Matthew Allen - @UKAstroNut
Create a map of the planets or requested objects in the solar system in a 11x11 grid of characters in a twitter reply.
Proposed by Frazer Pearce
Extract counts of total papers, average number of authors, average number of references (and distributions) from ADS as a function of year. Are these numbers all growing and if so, how fast?
Adding more letters (and unicode support) to http://writing.galaxyzoo.org
Proposed by @bamford
Or perhaps updating / repurposing / automating?
Proposed by @bamford (and we've also got a few experts at NAM)
Got a large dataset that needs looking at? The Zooniverse now makes it easy to build your own Citizen Science Project.
Refining robo-ph
Proposed by @bamford
Robo-ph is a tool (created at .Astronomy7 by @astrofrog and collaborators) that reads the daily astro-ph abstracts and creates podcasts. It already works quite nicely, but the Apple speech synthesiser's pronunciation of technical words, acronyms and maths is a bit dodgy. I suggest we create a comprehensive set of rules to refine the pronunciation of common terms, to make listening to robo-ph a more pleasurable experience.
Exploring the ADS API
Proposed by @bamford
There are a huge number of things that can be done by hacking on the ADS API!
Contributing to AstroPy
Proposed by @bamford
Fancy contributing to AstroPy? Get help with adding features or squashing some bugs.