{"id":238,"date":"2015-10-19T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2015-10-19T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T17:10:40","slug":"preparing-for-the-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/preparing-for-the-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for the hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What do you need to bring?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A coffee mug! (and\/or water bottle)<\/li>\n<li>Laptop and power cables.<\/li>\n<li>Software you might want to use.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tableau.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tableau<\/a>? (watch for an email with license details)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gephi.github.io\" target=\"_blank\">Gephi<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-project.org\" target=\"_blank\">R<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Excel or similar?<\/li>\n<li>Others?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>USB stick for easy data movement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What should you do beforehand?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out the Learning Analytics and Visual Analytics resources listed in the righthand menu on this website.<\/li>\n<li>Download a trial of Tableau:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/get.tableau.com\/trial\/tableau-software.html?cid=701600000005cS4&amp;ls=Paid%20Search&amp;lsd=Google%20AdWords%20-%20Tableau%20-%20Free%20Trial&amp;adgroup=Tableau%20-%20Exact&amp;kw=tableau&amp;adused=60981532215&amp;distribution=search&amp;gclid=CIbx3d6t1McCFU2SfgodQ_kPUA\" target=\"_blank\">Tableau Trial<\/a>.\u00a0(Students! You can register for a FREE 1-year license of Tableau Desktop:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tableau.com\/academic\/students\" target=\"_blank\">Student Trial<\/a>\u00a0).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you need to bring? A coffee mug! (and\/or water bottle) Laptop and power cables. Software you might want to use. Tableau? (watch for an email with license details) Gephi? R? Excel or similar? Others? USB stick for easy data movement. What should you do beforehand? Check out the Learning Analytics and Visual Analytics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/preparing-for-the-hackathon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preparing for the hackathon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lava\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}