Datamob: language

Big Huge Thesaurus API

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:55:50 -0500

Query a database of 145,000 English language words for synonyms. Returns data in JSON, XML, serialized PHP array or plain text formats. Based on data from the Princeton University WordNet database and the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary. By John Watson.

url: http://words.bighugelabs.com/api.php

Dolores Labs' Color Name Dataset

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:51:12 -0500

10,000 color/label pairs, based on data collected through Amazon's Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace. By Brendan O'Connor.

url: http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/03/our-color-names-data-set-is-online/

Given Name Frequency Project

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:07:15 -0500

Four datasets on given name popularity.

url: http://www.galbithink.org/names/agnames.htm

U.S. Census Bureau - 1990 Names

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:06:33 -0500

url: http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html

Newsstream

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:29:27 -0500

A visualization of the waxing and waning popularity of news stories over time, using Google News clustering data. Written in Common Lisp, uses SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). By Eli Naeher.

url: http://newsstream.codeanddata.com

President Bush State of the Union Speech Sentence Diagrams

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:25:02 -0500

Diagrammatic expressions of the content of President George W. Bush's State of the Union Addresses. Offers contrasts between speeches made in different years. By David Sparks

url: http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/bushs-legacy-speaks-for-itself/

Color Name Networks

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:00:00 -0500

Network and cluster diagrams derived from the Dolores Labs color name dataset. By David Sparks.

url: http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/plotting-the-colors/

Color Flower

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:46:13 -0500

A visualization of the Dolores Labs color name dataset in which color names radiate from the center according to their hue. By Chris Harrison.

url: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/colorflower/index.html

Baby Name Voyager

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:00:25 -0500

Visualization of child name popularity over time.

url: http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

Color Name Explorer

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:56:29 -0500

Interactive 3D explorer application of data from the Dolores Labs color name experiment. By Jeff Clark.

url: http://www.neoformix.com/2008/ColorNamesExplorer.html

Color Name Cloud Visualization

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:55:32 -0500

A visualization of data from a color names experiment by Dolores Labs in which people were asked what they would call various colors. By Martin Wattenberg.

url: http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/03/awesome-cloud-view-of-our-color-names-data/

Dolores Labs' Color Name Cloud

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:52:24 -0500

A visualization of data from a color names experiment by Dolores Labs in which people were asked what they would call various colors. By Brendan O'Connor.

url: http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/03/where-does-blue-end-and-red-begin/