A hack is a small project that solves one problem, designed and executed as quickly as possible.
Not just technical - can be artistic (e.g., a play).
A mix of people makes for a good hack day.
Teaching hacks: an online resource about how to do a thing can be very useful.
Interesting existing hacks: those of
Erik Tollerud (Astro Object Databases)
Ruth Angus (ArXiv Beta)
Useful websites:
Slack
Trello
LightTable
CodePen
Plotly
CartoDB & LeafletJS [mapping!]
D3js.org
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