Information Aesthetics

clipped from infosthetics.com SIGGRAPH'09: The Information Aesthetics Showcase Exhibition clipped from www.siggraph.org Information Aesthetics Showcase The emergent field of information aesthetics combines a rich variety of technical and artistic disciplines. Designers and new media artists are joining scientific visualization, informatics, and medical imaging specialists to create purposive, predictive, and creative representations of information. SIGGRAPH 2009 is highlighting this field in recognition of the increasingly prominent role that information visualization and data graphics are assuming in our digitally mediated culture. clipped from www.youtube.com Transparent LED stereoscopic installation of telecom data visualization Eunju Han clipped from design.ajou.ac.kr The MBTI Map clipped from r-dimension.xsrv.jp c-loc Software QuickTimeVideo LOW — HIGH clipped from www.junji.org Touch the Invisibles clipped from lab.softwarestudies.com Cultural Analytics Research Environment

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1. SIGGRAPH'09: The Information Aesthetics Showcase Exhibition - information aesthetics
2. Information Aesthetics Showcase | Galleries & Experiences | SIGGRAPH 2009
3. YouTube - Transparent LED stereoscopic installation of telecom data visualization Eunju Han
4. The MBTI Map - ID Lab, Graduate of Ajou University
5. yasushi’s site projects_e » Blog Archive » c-loc Software
6. http://www.junji.org/invisibles/
7. Software Studies: Cultural Analytics Research Environment

Freebase -- Open Shared Database of The World's Knowledge

Freebase, a product of semantic web company Metaweb, is an open database of information. Unlike Wikipedia, which is a free form resource, Freebase is structured database, with concepts and relationships interlinked into a giant network.

clipped from www.freebase.com clipped from www.freebase.com What is Freebase? Freebase is an open database of the world’s information. It is built by the community and for the community—free for anyone to query, contribute to, build applications on top of, or integrate into their websites. How's Freebase different from Wikipedia? From GoogleBase? Wikipedia and Freebase both appeal to people who love to use and organize information. The difference lies in the way they store information. Wikipedia arranges information in the form of articles. Freebase lists facts and statistics. Freebase’s list form is good not only for people who like to glance at facts, but also for people who want to use the data to build other web sites and software. Information in article form can’t be reused in the same way (though, obviously, articles are awesome for other purposes). clipped from www.freebase.com Phoenix Mars Mission Canon EOS 400D Indiana Jones

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iLeonardo -- Collect, Discover and Share

A new human powered search engine which allows individuals to collect links and then share, compare, and discover information for further exploration.

clipped from blogs.zdnet.com iLeonardo taps into the wisdom of the community iLeonardo (not to be confused with anything from Apple) is a social utility that connects people and their collections of information on the Web. It’s part shared bookmarking and social network, and part of the growing number of Web sites that are leveraging the wisdom of the community. clipped from www.demo.com Product Description iLeonardo is a Social Utility to connect people and similar collections of information on the web. People use iLeonardo to discover, collect and share information on the web - in return the utility displays similar notebooks that other people have created and made public. iLeonardo combines search methodologies, social bookmarks and social networks to produce relevant search results and ranking determined by searchers — not publishers. Concept and Business: Collaborative Search produces more relevant search results and better ad targeting. clipped from www.ileonardo.com connect people and similar collections of information on the web. Use iLeonardo to discover, collect, and share information on the web.">