GOVHACK

3 JUNE 2012

Climate vis jewellery

With deadly lasers!

@RuthEllison & @evildeeceFrom team @cranky_bot

@RuthEllison & @evildeece from team @cranky_bot

Husband and wife team

We love making & hacking things

Who are we?

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How do we get people interested in science, particularly in the global context of climate change?

The problem...

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@RuthEllison & @evildeece from team @cranky_bot

The solution?

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We performed an experiment to see how...

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Bureau of Meteorology - Temperature data

...BOM datasets react...

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When locked in a room with...

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Deadly Lasers

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What do you get?

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an intersection between art

and science

(Inspired by Mitchell Whitelaw)

Climate vis jewellery!

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Data sampled every 6 months with a 6 month rolling average

Outer ring = maximum temperature

Inner ring = minimum temperature

The data vis...

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BOM dataset

SVG

Perl

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Refine, refine, refine....

Find longer term datasets to show climate change trends

Find this on ThingiVerse http://www.thingiverse.com/

Upload your own datasets & create your own personalised jewellery!

Next steps...

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THANK YOU

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Thank you

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