What should we plug in?

[loleg]

There are various ideas in our issues of prototyping and planning tools to connect into Dribdat. You can already easily embed an Etherpad for quick text collaboration, for example, but we can make this even more plug and play - and endorse open source alternatives at the same time.

Leave comment please with any other suggestions 👇

[derrickoswald]

I have not evaluated any of the options I voted for (OpenRefine, Superset), but in my limited experience a huge percentage of the effort in a hackathon is getting data into a form that's usable by the "solution" being worked on.

This usually involves some sequence of data wrangling, probably best captured as a Jupyter or Zeppelin script, for example, that can be repeated by people arriving late to the party.

In my mind, the ideal scenario has: the hackathon project page has a link that opens a browser page to fetch the data it uses from open data sources and processes it down to the format used by the app/web-page that is the end-result/demo of the "hack day".

[florihas]

+1