big data: datasets
Access to Real Live BIG data stuff! This is what it is! Oh yeah! We demoed
some fun little apps that sonified things ranging from input and output
packets to the incidence of UFO sitings to volcano eruption records
to sheep and yarn production. And biology stuff too!
Links
I showed these in class, but there are many more out there I am sure.
Lots of people earn their daily bread with this material now.
- Cycling '74 Big Data Article
-- really terrific lode of information by Gregory Taylor. It was
really useful to me as I developed this class.
- GitHub list
-- this was linked from Gregory's article. It's a good starting point when
searching for that Big, big data
- aka.shell Max/MSP object
-- this is the external I used to get data from a shell command ("netstat")
into Max
- Time Series Data Library
-- I found this via the GitHub list; it's an impressive collection
of good, nicely-formatted info
Class Downloads
- week12-patches.zip
-- various approaches to using and sonifying datasets from class
more coming -- the biology stuff and Nina Fefferman project scripts