The document discusses tools and techniques for appropriating information technology (IT) and the Joint Fund for Student Initiatives (JFSI). It provides an overview of various data scraping, cleaning, and visualization tools that can be used including ScraperWiki, Google Fusion Tables, Google Refine, Stanford Data Wrangler, TextMechanic, Yahoo Pipes, ggraph2, and data visualization libraries. It emphasizes using the appropriate tools for tasks and sharing work publicly.

1. Appropriating IT and JFDSI
Attitude
Tony Hirst
Dept of Communication and Systems
The Open University

2. Do you know
what’s
possible?

4. site:ac.uk
filetype:c
View
Source/Network

5. .

6. Giant chess pieces by Liza Daly

10. Google
Yahoo! Pipe
Wikipedia HTML Spreadsheet CSV
Import CSV
=importHTML
Embedded
<embed> Google Map KML
object

11. KML
(CSV)

12. RSS/Atom
HTML
CSV
XML
RSS/Atom
CSV
KML
JSON

13. Be Lazy

14. Code Libraries
Stack Overflow
GetTheData
+theDataHub

15. Use appropriate tools
Appropriate
technology

17. Scraperwiki
(hosted scraper + db +views)

18. Google Fusion Tables
Google Refine
Stanford Data Wrangler
TextMechanic

19. Rapidly
prototype…

20. http://bit.ly/r67F80

21. Yahoo Pipes
+
Pipe2Py

22. ggraph2
http://bit.ly/aBBHvD

23. Make your own
glue

24. http://bit.ly/85Mcva

25. Share lots of little
pieces in public

27. Guardian Tag Explorer:
Python + Gephi, via NetworkX
NYT Tag explorer:
Python + NetworkX + d.3js
NYT: JSON + d3js

28. JFSI