Datamob: music

Songs Sampled in Girl Talk's 'Feed the Animals'

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:59:10 -0500

Information about the 264 samples used in Girl Talk's Feed the Animals album, along with a few visualizations. CSV format. By Andy Baio.

url: http://waxy.org/2008/09/girl_turk/

Freebase Data Dumps

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:06:28 -0500

Full data dumps of the Freebase shared database of the world's knowledge. Available in tab-separated values format and a low-level link export suitable for converting into RDF or XML. Creative Commons Attribution license.

See also: Freebase API and Freebase Wikipedia Extraction (WEX).

url: http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/

Freebase API

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:50:45 -0500

Query the Freebase shared database of the world's knowledge via a JSON-based query language.

url: http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e14d

White Glove Tracking Dataset

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:52:31 -0500

Data on the location and position of Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised 1983 performance of the song "Billie Jean."

url: http://www.whiteglovetracking.com/

MusicBrainz

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:19:42 -0500

Community music metadatabase.

url: http://musicbrainz.org/

Thinkbase

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:19:59 -0500

Thinkbase uses Thinkmap software to create an interactive visual representation of the semantic relationships in Freebase. Presents a paned view with Freebase on the right and a graphical representation of the topics in that Freebase page on the left. By Christian Hirsch.

url: http://thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz/

Freebase

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:55:44 -0500

Open, shared database of the world's knowledge containing structured information on topics like movies, music, people and locations. Programmatically accessible via the Freebase API.

url: http://www.freebase.com/

White Glove Tracking Visualization Gallery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:53:37 -0500

Gallery of animations and visualizations created from the White Glove Tracking dataset of the location and position of Michael Jackson's white glove during his nationally televised performance of "Billie Jean."

url: http://www.whiteglovetracking.com/