Seems like CERN picked up the LHC data hack news from Nairobi this year [ http://cms.web.cern.ch/news/cms-public-data-activity-scoops-prize-nairobi ] Martin. On 4/16/12, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
Ooooh, some photos from the weekend are here [ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/sets/72157629442124858/ ]
Thanks to all who came and all our supporters.
Have a lovely week!!
Martin.
On 4/16/12, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys,
Here is one of the hacks done in Science hack day, Nairobi - 2012 that ended yesterday in the evening [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag7w0vgZj5g&feature=youtu.be ]. It is basically an animation of flights for some elementary particles that result from a radioactive decay inside the Large Hadron collider.
It might be of special interest to Python coders since it was done using Mapping libs (Python base-maps), Matplotlib (plotting and graphing), Numpy and Scipy (Scientific number crunching). The frames were fused together using ffmpeg at 25 frames per second to create the movie you see. The actual events are scarily fast (99 - 99.9999% the speed of light)!!
Find the full Source code here: [ https://github.com/chiteri/shdnbi_lhcdatahack ]
Me thinks it makes a nice screen saver! :-)
Martin.
On 3/27/12, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com> wrote:
Matt Biddulph [ www.hackdiary.com ] has also confirmed attendance [ https://twitter.com/#!/mattb ] for the weekend.
Martin.