Category: data

1st test – NMR tracking in lab (local version)

Today the iMac was deployed to track colony Omega (20 NMRs) using 7 sensors. The data is being stored on a local MySQL db. deployed code on github (misslake) estimated data logging (as determined with lights on): 24 rows of non-blank data per 30 seconds scales up to around 70,000 per day if NMR movement… Continue reading 1st test – NMR tracking in lab (local version)

Bird songs stunningly visualised in animation

As part of the Europeana Creative project, Sound and Vision commissioned Australian artist Andy Thomas to create an inspirational digital sound sculpture re-using two bird sounds from its archive. The result is a visually mesmerizing artwork that has been very well received. If you would like to know more about how this video was made… Continue reading Bird songs stunningly visualised in animation

Thorbjørn Lausten – data art

Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art Thorbjørn Lausten’s 2003 exhibition Datablik (Dataview) and his long-standing, pioneering work at the intersection of art, science and technology. The exhibition format REVISIT is an annual event focusing on some of the significant art projects held at Overgaden in the past. In 2015 we revisit Thorbjørn Lausten’s 2003 exhibition Datablik… Continue reading Thorbjørn Lausten – data art

A Material History of Bits

Jean-François Blanchette, Assistant Professor Dept. of Information Studies, UCLA In both the popular press and scholarly research, the trope of digital information as “immaterial” is invoked with remarkable persistence. In this characterization, the digital derives its power from its nature as a mere collection of 0s and 1s wholly independent from the particular media on…… Continue reading A Material History of Bits

Materiality of Data and Bits – blog post

Source: Materiality of Data and Bits | Home This article is okay – the best bits are that he references some people writing about data that are new to me, so to follow up his sources (which aren’t included annoyingly). i.e. Lisa Gitelman and Virginia Jackson explain partly why “data” seems to have an ethereal… Continue reading Materiality of Data and Bits – blog post

Environment

Source: Environment Lapka started with the ambitious idea to build the most beautiful science ever. We first set out to explore body network and personal environment, utilizing numerous, sensitive environmental factors such as radiation and carbon monoxide. We built tools for self-care and mind harmony, but never saw them as medicinal devices. Russian company that… Continue reading Environment

Sensible Data (art installation)

“Sensible Data” is an interactive installation consisting of three machines that invite to create a passport from your personal data. Take a picture of yourself and a machine will draw your portrait. Send an email and an algorithm will judge your mood, age, gender and beauty. By pressing a dubious button, you can get a… Continue reading Sensible Data (art installation)

Turning Data Visualization Into Art: Data as a Muse

Turning Data Visualization Into Art: 7 Artists Use Data as a Muse. Artists are using available technology to create masterpieces out of everything from disease and weather to Wi-Fi and the music of internet chatter. Though we generally think of artists as slaves to a flash of inspiration, to the fickle muse, artistry today is interactive and deeply… Continue reading Turning Data Visualization Into Art: Data as a Muse

Ken Goldberg – Mori and Bloom (real-time seismic data)

Making Art Out of Earthquakes – The Atlantic. Mori http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/art/mori/ Bloom (in collaboration with Fernanda and Viegas – http://hint.fm/projects/bloom/ ) references http://www.kennethnoland.com/ – an abstract painter. nice. I also think it is very similar to the Wired piece they did in 2008. Hmmm. In this interview, KG talks about making a long-form artwork. This is… Continue reading Ken Goldberg – Mori and Bloom (real-time seismic data)

Getty vocab usage

Intro to Getty’s cataloguing system. Really helpful page on the difference between Display (text that will be read by the end-user) and Indexing (text that uses a controlled vocabulary (AAT) for finding and accessing the works) https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/intro_to_cco_cdwa.pdf [pdf] DISPLAY VS INDEXING Patricia Harpring © 2015 J. Paul Getty Trust. For educational purposes only. Do not… Continue reading Getty vocab usage

Big Bang Data

Exhibition | Big Bang Data. Use exhibition for the analysis of how data is described in data art.

The Performing Data Project @ FACT

The Performing Data Project – FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology).   14 July 2015 – 21 July 2015 The Performing Data Project presents a series of artworks, informal presentations and a makers session exploring the concept of performing data.

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DataCite

We want to help make data more accessible and more useful; our purpose is to develop and support methods to locate, identify and cite data and other research objects. Specifically, we develop and support the standards behind persistent identifiers for data, and our members assign them. via What do we do? | DataCite.

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re3data – schema

Schema for the Description of Research Data Repositories Version 2.2 December 2014 doi: http://doi.org/10.2312/re3.006 http://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:758898:3/component/escidoc:775891/re3data_schema_v2-2_public_final-2014-12-03.pdf Research data are valuable and ubiquitous. The permanent access to research data is a challenge for all stakeholders in the scientific community. The long-term preservation and the principle of open access to research data offer broad opportunities for the scientific… Continue reading re3data – schema

Seeing Data – research project

Seeing Data. Seeing Data is a research project which aims to understand how people make sense of data visualisations like the examples below. This website explains what we have been doing on Seeing Data, what we have found out, and how non-experts can develop their ability to make sense of data visualisations. The ‘Understanding Data Visualisations‘ section of the… Continue reading Seeing Data – research project

Train timetables – working and active

The train timetables exist in two forms – working (set about every 6 months) and active (updated in real-time about an hour ahead). This site is a good example of where both data sets are used and accessible. Realtime Trains | 1L47 1550 London Waterloo to Gillingham (Dorset).

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OpenSensors.io training

IoT with OpenSensors – 28 April 2015 IoT deep dive with OpenSensors https://opensensors.io/ Node-RED – plumbing system for iot. nodered.org (opensource but developed at IBM Emerging Technology) @BorisAdryan node.js based webservice on various platfroms – Rpi, mac, cloud… website with GUI large library flows shared as JSON strings http://flows.nodered.org Node.js is a prerequirement, then run… Continue reading OpenSensors.io training

Safety in Numbers? data and art article

Frieze Magazine | Archive | Safety in Numbers?. Algorithms, Big Data and surveillance: what’s the response, and responsibility, of art? Jörg Heiser asked seven artists, writers and academics to reflect.

Nato doc on The Nature of Data

PDF: http://ftp.rta.nato.int/public/PubFullText/RTO/TR/RTO-TR-HFM-073/TR-HFM-073-ANN-I.pdf 1 INTRODUCTION The term “data” is used here in the broadest possible sense. Data are mere basic observations, which are real, not assumed or hypothesized. Data should neither be underrated nor overrated in their importance. They should certainly never be confused with the concept of absolute truth. Data can be thought of as the foundation of an… Continue reading Nato doc on The Nature of Data

data.nature.com – linked data

Home : data.nature.com. Triple count: 389,357,371 (389.3 million) The NPG Linked Data Platform provides access to datasets from NPG published as linked data and made available through SPARQL services. Two different interfaces are provided: /query – a form interface for interactive queries, and /sparql – a service endpoint for remote queries.

Open Definition (OKF)

The Open Definition sets out principles that define “openness” in relation to data and content. It makes precise the meaning of “open” in the terms “open data” and “open content” and thereby ensures interoperability between different pools of open material. It can be summed up in the statement that: “A piece of data or content… Continue reading Open Definition (OKF)

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Open Database License ODbL

Open Data Commons Open Database License ODbL Attribution and Share-Alike for Data/Databases Human-readable summary Full legal text of current version (v1.0) How to Apply Insert prominently in all relevant locations a statement such as (replacing {DATA(BASE)-NAME} with the name of your data/database): This {DATA(BASE)-NAME} is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights… Continue reading Open Database License ODbL

Maps as Pieces of Art

  Artists Turn City Maps Into Pieces of Art | Experience cities like a local!.

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Ronald Coase – Wikiquote

“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” via Ronald Coase – Wikiquote.

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TreeSoft: TreeBeST

TreeSoft: TreeBeST. TreeBeST, which stands for (gene) Tree Building guided by Species Tree, is a versatile program that builds, manipulates and displays phylogenetic trees. It is particularly designed for building gene trees with a known species tree and is highly efficient and accurate. Potential tool to look into to see the NMR data on http://naked-mole-rat.org/gene_expression/