Space Nerds In Space is an open source (GPLv2) cooperative multiplayer starship simulator for linux (may also work on Mac). So go out and get together with a crew of your linux-nerd friends and their computers in a room with a projector or TV, and go forth and explore the galaxy.
One computer runs the central server simulation of the game's universe. Each player's computer acts as a station on a simulated spaceship. There are stations for Navigation, Weapons, Engineering, Communications, Damage Control, and the "Main View", an out-the-window 3d rendering. Multiple starships each with their own team may connect to the server for bridge-vs-bridge combat, or for cooperative play. Additionally, a game master may inject and control various NPC ships into the game to entertain the players, and scenarios may be constructed with a Lua based scripting API.
Source code: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space
A curated list of assets available on the Internet related to Geocaching.
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called geocaches or caches, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world.
In Centauri Dreams, Paul Gilster looks at peer-reviewed research on deep space exploration, with an eye toward interstellar possibilities. For many years this site coordinated its efforts with the Tau Zero Foundation. It now serves as an independent forum for deep space news and ideas.
RSS: https://follow.it/centauri-dreams-imagining-and-planning-interstellar-exploration/rss
VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.
Accepts many different data sources, from CSV files to PCAPs to HTML5 pages as long as you have the right Python modules installed. Analyzes and plots the data in a text terminal so you can explore it. Takes some playing around to learn how to use it.
HoloViews is an open-source Python library designed to make data analysis and visualization seamless and simple. With HoloViews, you can usually express what you want to do in very few lines of code, letting you focus on what you are trying to explore and convey, not on the process of plotting. Designed with Jupyter notebook-style data exploration primarily but it doesn't seem to b e a requirement.
A tool that automatically sets up a virtualenv, installs a Python package and all of its dependencies, and fires up a shell so you can play with it.
Visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Map and explore data points and entities. Trace links between entities. Analyze graph data for patterns. Can be extended with plugins (https://gephi.org/plugins/).
Aleph is a tool for indexing large amounts of both documents (PDF, Word, HTML) and structured (CSV, XLS, SQL) data for easy browsing and search. It is built with investigative reporting as a primary use case. Aleph allows cross-referencing mentions of well-known entities (such as people and companies) against watchlists, e.g. from prior research or public datasets. Web-based search. Processing includes optical character recognition, language and encoding detection and named entity extraction. Load structured entity graph data from databases and CSV files. This allows navigation of complex datasets like companies registries, sanctions lists or procurement data.
Shaarli plugin to to show related links based on the number of identical tags.